Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 2 | We just seemed to spend all the time we were n't at work doing up the house and arguing about how we wanted it . |
| 3 | ‘ Is there any well known author you do n't know already with whom you 'd like to spend all the time I have to spend with him ? ’ asked Roger plaintively . |
| 4 | Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform . |
| 5 | He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've had all the time I can give , ’ he said tightly . |
| 7 | The old man had gone to stay with relatives for a few days , and Dorothy wondered if I would water her houseplants , because he ( Leo ) wanted to spend all the time he could with her at the hospital . |