Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took more time off than usual after the World Championships , feeling that I needed a break . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's alright , but I do wish I had more time to myself . ’ |
| 3 | In the days when I had more time to spare I would read any book I could lay my hands on and particularly enjoyed anything about foreign lands . |
| 4 | They would wait until I had more time . |
| 5 | I wish I had more time for reading ; it means a lot to me . ’ |
| 6 | Afterwards she spent more time than usual on her appearance , determined that from now on she would stop behaving like some Victorian miss with the vapours . |
| 7 | The poorest families who spent more time at home , like the unemployed , were having anything up to £35 per week from their Social Security Benefits deducted and paid direct to the fuel companies to cover fuel debts . |
| 8 | One regular was just thankful there was someone who spent more time in the pub than him . |
| 9 | She needed more time — time to think , time to weigh up the consequences . |
| 10 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 11 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
| 12 | Since culture did not hammer quite so hard on Mrs Frizzell 's door , she had more time to plan parties . |
| 13 | She had more time for dogs and horses than for children . |
| 14 | So you reckon if you had more time to think about an overall , sort of , web , if you like , of |
| 15 | If you had more time round , you 'd use that sort of language with themselves . |
| 16 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
| 17 | But I do n't mind confessing that after a few honeymoon months we stalled more times than we took off … if you take my meaning . ’ |
| 18 | The total number , though far higher than in earlier studies , is not so significant ; after all , we spent more time tracking in deep water than all previous studies put together . |
| 19 | Fortunately , we spent more time mountaineering than sailing . |
| 20 | It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing . |
| 21 | We took more time over the song-writing and all chipped in together . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I wish you could have talked about this when we had more time , Adam . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If we had more time I 'd take you up on that challenge you 're issuing , my lady , ’ he growled , in a voice that had gone dark and soft . |
| 24 | They spent more time on their feet than they did sitting . |
| 25 | The apes fed on a wide range of foods at all times of the year , but when fruit was scarce , they spent more time travelling and turned to less nutritious plant materials as well . |
| 26 | THE simultaneous publication by national newspapers of a common code of practice and declaration of principles was postponed last night after the chairman and editors of Express Newspapers decided that they needed more time to examine the proposals . |
| 27 | She wanted to explain that they needed more time but of course there was n't more time , not immediate time . |
| 28 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 29 | He spent more time hanging out at Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 30 | And Tucker was saying , ‘ He spent more time in the islands these past years than ever before . |