Example sentences of "[verb] [det] his time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paused and added thoughtfully , ‘ It 's strange , but although I 've stayed down here a lot I 've never met him , but perhaps that 's because his wife was an invalid and he devoted all his time to her . |
| 2 | He began to pour all his time and emotion into poetry , writing with a passion that recalls the English romantics , Oscar Wilde and the American beats . |
| 3 | He would spend all his time with well-to-do society people , though he had n't got their sort of money . |
| 4 | If the pack has become too big and unmanageable , the dominant male must spend all his time trying to control it . |
| 5 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 6 | He should not spend all his time on a few only of the questions . |
| 7 | To hear Mario talk about him , Brawner was one of those woolly American health freaks : suffering from chronic asthma he spent half his time talking about pollen counts and his symptoms . |
| 8 | The fearful heat of the city seemed to encourage him to sleep half his time away and she had never felt more English than when she observed his devotion that summer to the long siesta . |
| 9 | I remember that the occupant — a very old , very small man — spent all his time leaning over the gate , watching the world go by . |
| 10 | Nowadays , he spent all his time and a lot of his money entertaining . |
| 11 | Meantime Martin was becoming richer and richer , while Mihal spent all his time hunting and plundering . |
| 12 | When reading it on the spot , along with Memoirs of the Duc de Saint Simon , the visitor becomes entirely absorbed in the bizarre life of Louis XIV , a monarch who spent all his time in public , and yet allowed no man — except his brother — to sit down directly in front of him . |
| 13 | No wonder Peter lacked confidence and spent all his time merely trying to be amusing in the face of Marc 's uncompromising thirst for excellence ! |
| 14 | He worked he worked all his time on the island apart from the time he was in the army . |
| 15 | Philip knew he was thinking about the swimming , the way he objected to spending all his time training and how he tried to get out of it . |
| 16 | He 'd have spent all his time looking at the bloody birds in the Jungle instead of reading his cue-cards . |
| 17 | Moving to Guildford , Leese 's fanaticism and his willingness to devote all his time and resources to the new movement soon made him the fulcrum of racial nationalist activity in Britain . |
| 18 | He had spent much of his spare time working on a theory for the formation of atmospheric depressions and decided to devote all his time to it ; he resigned from the Meteorological Office to become a graduate student at Imperial College . |
| 19 | It took all his time to wash and shave . |
| 20 | Being organized as a probationary teacher took all his time : |
| 21 | Worked all his time on the island ? |
| 22 | Bringing commerce to the Province is part of it , he spends half his time with continental businessmen , Krauts and Dutchmen and Italians . |
| 23 | Why does he have to spend half his time with that drunken , brassy bitch ? |
| 24 | A retired diplomat who now spends all his time lobbying on Cambodia , has sent a 30-page fax from Los Angeles to my constituency office in Aberdare . |
| 25 | It would be nice to believe that the Health Secretary spends all his time understanding the very latest developments in heart-lung transplants . |
| 26 | He spends all his time hiding , cloaking and padding things around himself . |
| 27 | In the massage parlour at lunchtime , Molly Lugg told me her son was now unemployed because his boss , Trevor Proby , was ‘ in chains ’ and she would be grateful if I could find him something to do , as he spends all his time kicking his heels , mostly through shop windows in the High Street . |
| 28 | He spends all his time with us . |
| 29 | He used to scream even at the idea of fresh air , but now he spends all his time outside in his wheelchair , with Miss Mary and Dickon Sowerby . |
| 30 | Spends all his time in Orme Gardens or at Streatley . ’ |