Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the record company , and its revenue from worldwide licensing deals , became more important , so Branson spent more time with Simon Draper and less and less with Nik Powell . |
| 2 | Rangers ' Stuart McCall spent more time on the ball than all of Hibs ' midfield put together and never wasted a moment , either . |
| 3 | Molly spent more time with the Corduroys and was introduced to the Tapscotts , a white-haired couple : Nicholas , who had been the British Consul in Florence , and his wife Connie . |
| 4 | Alan Shearer and Ian Wright need more time for their partnership to mature . |
| 5 | Sebastian spent more time out of the house . |
| 6 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 7 | They enjoy being at home together : she attends keep-fit classes and meets her former colleagues for coffee once a fortnight , while Tom spends more time on gardening and playing whist . |
| 8 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 9 | International : Yeltsin wins more time for reforms |
| 10 | But here I am Elsie spending more time writing about a fish than about people . |
| 11 | Had BR had more time and more funding , had the government been more sympathetic towards the railway investment and had there been no recession , the APT might have eventually been successful — but that is another story . |
| 12 | Success allowed Frith to devote more time to leisure and to his family ; he remained a convinced Quaker . |
| 13 | And Clinton spent more time than many previous Presidential candidates courting the Irish vote . |
| 14 | There were more interruptions as he explained that Britain needed more time to ratify the treaty . |
| 15 | Friendships in Japan take more time to form , are deeper and last longer than those in the West and often these obligations extend to business relationships . |
| 16 | Parker wished more time , more , with the boy ; this almost crucifixion , to feast his eyes . |
| 17 | As Niki relates it , Chiti spent more time looking after two score stray dogs that roamed through the Alfa factory than he did making sure his engines actually ran . |
| 18 | Freed of the responsibility of nursing her husband Lady Chatterley spends more time with the gamekeeper and eventually they both give in to their desire . |
| 19 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |