Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | She needed more time — time to think , time to weigh up the consequences . |
8 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Since culture did not hammer quite so hard on Mrs Frizzell 's door , she had more time to plan parties . |
11 | She had more time for dogs and horses than for children . |
12 | So you reckon if you had more time to think about an overall , sort of , web , if you like , of |
13 | If you had more time round , you 'd use that sort of language with themselves . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Fortunately , we spent more time mountaineering than sailing . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | We took more time over the song-writing and all chipped in together . ’ |
18 | ‘ I wish you could have talked about this when we had more time , Adam . ’ |
19 | ‘ 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 . |
20 | They spent more time on their feet than they did sitting . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | She wanted to explain that they needed more time but of course there was n't more time , not immediate time . |
24 | 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 . ’ |
25 | He spent more time hanging out at Jacqueline 's flat . |
26 | And Tucker was saying , ‘ He spent more time in the islands these past years than ever before . |
27 | He spent more time on the Vibrancy at Mandru than he ever had in Por Tanssie . |
28 | Soon Gabrielle learned to leave him alone in his despair , and he spent more time playing darts and billiards at a Battersea pub . |
29 | Since the Congress Kingdom of Poland was only one of a number of outlying parts of the empire which required his attention , and since he could hardly afford a forward policy in western Europe or the Balkans until his own peripheries were fully integrated into the imperial structure , he spent more time in the 1830s and 1840s on his own non-Russian subjects than on dealings with foreigners . |
30 | He felt that Balbinder needed to work slowly and not be pushed — he needed more time and specific help to speak in sentences . |