Example sentences of "[vb pp] time with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rushdie also met federal parliamentarians in Ottawa , and although he was not granted time with the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , he said that his reception by the External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall encouraged him to believe that Canada was firmly behind the campaign to get the death sentence lifted . |
| 2 | Maureen , always self-effacing , would never have demanded time with him but Joe took matters into his own hands . |
| 3 | Here he entertained the celebrities of the day , Pope , Warburton , Richardson , Quin and Garrick , who would all have spent time with the local squire of Widcombe . |
| 4 | His interest in , and knowledge of , inner-city problems is more profound and personally felt than that of most government ministers and civil servants , according to those who have spent time with him . |
| 5 | If you doubt this , think of those patients who have slipped into a coma and who are awakened when those who love them have spent time with them , talking to them , touching them , playing their favourite music . |
| 6 | I have spent time with all three parties ' leaders during the past ten days . |
| 7 | Jimmy Connors after being knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round I 'VE spent time with her and she is everything that a man could want . |
| 8 | Danny and Dick both spent time with Saracens and Wasps , so have plenty of experience . ’ |
| 9 | As anyone who has spent time with the man knows , his whole charm derives from his lack of focus . |
| 10 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 11 | And I knew what it was like to be tired and weary , but I knew that if I trusted in God and spent time with him then he would renew my strength and I could carry on . |
| 12 | 11.35 : Spent time with J. Talked about how his day was going , what work he had done etc . |
| 13 | Debray , later a minister in France 's socialist President Mitterrand 's Government , had spent time with Guevara in the jungle , and had been sentenced to thirty years by the Bolivians . |
| 14 | Perhaps , what is more common is that , we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their few minutes . |