Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to spend more time at home and in my constituency . ’ |
| 2 | Gee , formerly an official with the GMB trade union , said that : " I want to spend less time on administration and more on direct issues which affect people and the planet . " |
| 3 | However , I want to leave sufficient time for the Minister to answer . |
| 4 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 5 | And I remember saying one time to our doctor |
| 6 | Since I retired I 've had more time on my hands and I pass it , you might say , in reading and reflection on my area of interest . |
| 7 | I think I 've had enough time in school . |
| 8 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 10 | I 've got more time for him than either our lot or the Americans , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 11 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
| 12 | I have devoted some time to the Aplysia story here , not only because of the significance of Eric Kandel 's achievement in terms of its wealth of experimental data and theoretical model building , but perhaps above all because of the place it has come to occupy , not only in the text-books , making memory research neurophysiologically respectable , but in the framing of the research field . |
| 13 | For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can . |
| 14 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 15 | An objective is a clear , precise forecast of what you want to achieve some time in the future . |
| 16 | As well as their daily pint of fresh milk taken in one form or another , if they can be encouraged to cook themselves some fresh green and root vegetables several times a week , so much the better , but these menus are designed primarily for old people who dislike spending much time on the preparation of their food and are unlikely to be persuaded past a certain point of effort . |
| 17 | The dominance of London in the country has been reflected in the interests of historians , who have devoted more time to it than to provincial centres , although recent work has done something to redress the balance . |
| 18 | " You have to spend some time on the practice tee , and you have to take a different approach every day . |
| 19 | Yes , if you have to spend any time in hospital as the result of an accident which requires an overnight stay . |
| 20 | ‘ We will do all we can to help customers as much as we can , especially those on low incomes and we want to take more time during the course of the year to evaluate the charge in detail . |
| 21 | ‘ We will do all we can to help customers as much as we can , especially those on low incomes , and we want to take more time during the course of the year to evaluate the charge in detail . |
| 22 | we , that means I 've got ex , it 's because we do n't have period one and two on Wednesday , yeah , that means we 've got extra time for our French test , I think it was on Wednesday , extra time to practice |
| 23 | ‘ Master Daunbey , we have lost enough time over Ruthven 's death . ’ |
| 24 | We have spent some time on the preliminaries , particularly the notation , because notation is essential for communication and because it is often neglected as a stage in attacking a problem . |
| 25 | In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there . |
| 26 | Finally we need to spend some time considering the role of decentralised administration in the public sector . |
| 27 | I hope I will , that we will have support in it on this issue and I do n't want to take up all the time but it is something that members do approach me in , and and others on the members ' services sub and I hope we have time Chairman to er give this report some consideration and let's say it 's a v , it 's a very important if you Chairman want any additionals to the recommendations , or if you say we 're going too far in the recommendations because those recommendations you have down in front of you will be forwarded on and you 're officers and your your your policies and resources they 've given some time on on this report and therefore on the bottom of page thirty one the motion to be moved says that the comments of the policy and resources committee and the recommendations of the joint working party and the internal management of the local authorities be noted for submission to the Association of County Councils as appropriate . |