Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 2 | ‘ Rohan will tell you , mademoiselle , that I spend too much time on my researches . |
| 3 | ‘ I have very much looked forward to retirement , and , like many others , I find that I have even less time than before to pursue all that I would like to do , ’ Dr Florin said . |
| 4 | As one of them said on being asked if she ever felt that she spent too much time on her own in the daytime : |
| 5 | At last she fell asleep , but it seemed to her that she woke up some time in the night . |
| 6 | Though some local followers complain that she spends too much time in West End theatres and not enough in party meetings , Miss Jackson seems well-informed about her part of London , down-to-earth and fully committed to becoming a Labour MP . |
| 7 | During the first few weeks , it 's important that you spend as much time as possible with a new resident , getting to know them and their family and working on their care plan . |
| 8 | It is most curious to see that you have so much time on your hands that you are able to simply wander about this house bothering others with gratuitous comments . ’ |
| 9 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 10 | Most editors these days , whether gifted or not , get so sucked into meetings and other company business that they have precious little time to edit , help authors , or train and nurture younger editors . |
| 11 | Busy parents can justly retort that they have so little time to check on their children , that they can not always follow through their threats to discipline them . |
| 12 | Er , that enables that they choose how much time they need , er because it , do I need to go that time or that time ? |
| 13 | The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone . |
| 14 | His skin was bronzed , his thinning hair was bleached by sun and sea , and Wycliffe felt sure that he spent as little time as possible away from boats , the sea , and the club bar . |
| 15 | Some teachers identified an increase in paperwork and one felt that he spent too much time trying to raise the money for new projects from sources outside school before the head took the request for funding seriously . |
| 16 | She recognised that her son had not always been as attentive as expected towards his wife or the children and that he spent too much time with friends like Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 17 | One reason why Mr Severin 's books are usually impressive is that he spends so much time discussing the historical evidence for his theories . |
| 18 | all things in mind that are possible on er , on er , on er computer , and he said that he had n't much time to think about it and said well look , maybe over Easter |
| 19 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 20 | One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia . |
| 21 | What he was asking her to do required a degree of trust that he had too little time to earn . |