Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One moment you give all your time to it , you do n't come home till late at night , you do n't even come home in the afternoon like ordinary men , the next you are giving no time to it at all . |
| 2 | So , think wisely before you devote all your time to carp — or any other single species . |
| 3 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 4 | And one of the things that archaeologists do all their time is try by looking at the evidence , whether it 's stuff that comes from the ground , landscapes or old buildings , to try and understand the changes that have happened through time , to see things that were there that have gone , and to work out what |
| 5 | THE PUNK generation now spend half their time whining about the smothering blanket of baby boomer nostalgia . |
| 6 | That is why reporters at Westminster spend half their time drinking in the bars or taking politicians out to lunch and dinner . |
| 7 | At Los Tuxtlas , howlers spend half their time collecting fruits of 19 species with a preference for those of certain Moraceae and Lauraceae . |
| 8 | We spend half our time trying to escape the worries of adulthood , so it does n't make sense to rush children into it . |
| 9 | I spend half my time down in town there sorting out the problems ! |
| 10 | ‘ Lucy , ’ said Jay , ‘ you have all my time . ’ |
| 11 | Now , as most of the country 's vicars are mad , and waste all their time falling dementedly in love with middle-aged lady parishioners — whatever happened to choirboys , by the way ? |
| 12 | ‘ You must get on with your life , and think about work , and not waste all your time in regrets . ’ |
| 13 | In our half-hour chat , I meet Little Brother ( ‘ He always comes in when you want to shag your girlfriend ’ ) ; the Gits ( ‘ They like looking through the obituaries and camping out next to accident black spots ’ ) ; Lee and Lance ( ‘ a couple of garage owners , they spend all their time putting Garfield stickers on cars ’ ) ; and Euro-Man ( ‘ as far as he 's concerned , the Euro-Parliament is just one big Amsterdam squat ’ ) . |
| 14 | Some male birds spend all their time mating and do not provide the female with any benefits other than indications of their vigour . |
| 15 | There is natural resentment when a number of our middle-distance stars spend all their time running abroad . |
| 16 | Should we insist that children spend all their time with a literature whose main non-white representatives are Othello , Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe and the savages in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness ? |
| 17 | Many women feel that they should not have any needs and spend all their time looking after others , juggling time and not fulfilling their own needs . |
| 18 | Some people get back pain , some get irritable , some withdraw , some become frantic and panicky , some assume a calm , out-of-touch-with-reality veneer , some spend all their time moaning about what 's wrong … |
| 19 | Some people hate their relations and spend all their time gardening , and it is certainly the bone of much contention that racial and colour affinities , together with religious ones such as Judaism or Islam , cut across and militate against national allegiances . |
| 20 | When they 're not actually at war , Orcs spend all their time fighting each other to establish rights of leadership . |
| 21 | The medium-sized ones help with some of these tasks , while the largest spend all their time tending the young . |
| 22 | They spend all their time surrounded by nature and the one thing nature does n't do is lie . |
| 23 | I do understand that many people think wild animals roam over very large spaces and therefore feel cramped if they are kept in restricted areas but most have territories , areas which they mark out for themselves in various ways , and spend all their time inside these territories anyway and consequently they can consider their enclosure as being their own territory . |
| 24 | The wish bones , who spend all their time wishing some one else would do the work . |
| 25 | Oh there 's you spend all your time sorting out other people 's arguments and I 'm not as thick as that ! |
| 26 | Crilly and I spend all our time in bed . |
| 27 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 28 | Like Jimmy Murphy , aged 14 , who told us : ‘ I 'd like to live like people in Neighbours — and spend all my time outdoors with all that sunshine . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ As you see , I spend all my time with my glasses , but apart from me there 's the coastguard who does his patrol every morning , there are two gentlemen from the town who never miss walking out here for their morning constitutional and on Saturdays , there 's the children , off from school … |