Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] a [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do spend a lot of time on the radio telephone . |
| 2 | ‘ I adore Ingrid , but I do spend a lot of time making love to her in the Baron and a man needs a change . |
| 3 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 4 | They got on very well , nothing homosexual I do n't think , but they did spend a lot of time together . |
| 5 | And stats do take a bit of time to do and you can write off a couple of hours if you 're going to do it properly and make sure that you 've got your i's dotted and your t's crossed . ’ |
| 6 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 7 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 8 | In the absence of Philip and Storie , George Reifer will open the batting with Bruce Patterson , Clydesdale 's new professional , and though Reifer has not had too much experience of going in first , he did open a couple of times during his 15-game spell with Barbados . |