Example sentences of "[pron] spent [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 2 | I spent so much time with them that I began to think like them , to see the world from their point of view . |
| 3 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 4 | I spent as little time with Syl as I possibly could . |
| 5 | I spent as much time wondering how the dome was held together as I did actually climbing . |
| 6 | But so I spent quite some time over that . |
| 7 | She spent as much time as possible with him and Anne . |
| 8 | As one of them said on being asked if she ever felt that she spent too much time on her own in the daytime : |
| 9 | Geoffrey was peeved she spent so much time in Meredith 's company . |
| 10 | The latter , riffling some more paperwork furiously and uselessly , wondered to herself if this was the reason Deana squinted so horribly — she spent so much time trying to spy on two people at once . |
| 11 | In this situation you will automatically revert to those fixed-wing reflexes which you spent so much time in developing and they can lead you sadly astray ! |
| 12 | ‘ You spent so much time on your stomach in Australia , ’ comments their stylist Peter . |
| 13 | Like the one you spent so much time talking to . |
| 14 | You spent so much time with her , I felt she even knew you better than I did . |
| 15 | The opening pitches of Spartan yielded to a steady , workmanlike approach , but doubts began to creep in as we were delayed by the American and his partner , who spent as much time conversing as climbing . |
| 16 | Any information is better than none : the fact that the results are inevitably partial and suggestive rather than comprehensive and definitive should if anything increase our appreciation of those who spent so much time and effort to help us to obtain a clearer picture . |
| 17 | For the next 2½ years we spent as much time as we could at the melin . |
| 18 | ‘ We spent so much time together . |
| 19 | We used to joke that we almost got nose bleeds when we stood up to our normal size because we spent so much time at floor level . ’ |
| 20 | They spent as much time decorating the table as they did making the food . |
| 21 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 22 | They spent so much time in Zap Zone at Streatham , scampering about in clouds of dry ice , zapping each other with laser guns , so many hours watching Neighbours or running up and down shopping-malls , playing Super Nintendo , they had probably not had time to go anywhere near a mosque or get their heads round the basics of Islamic education . |
| 23 | Cos she he spent nearly all time |
| 24 | Davie Cooper , the Rangers and Motherwell winger once told the press he was a bad example for young players to follow : he spent too much time in the bookies . |
| 25 | Some teachers identified an increase in paperwork and one felt that he spent too much time trying to raise the money for new projects from sources outside school before the head took the request for funding seriously . |
| 26 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 27 | She recognised that her son had not always been as attentive as expected towards his wife or the children and that he spent too much time with friends like Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 28 | The fair hair had faded to a dusty grey , and his skin looked pale and unhealthy , as if he spent too much time indoors , but the green eyes were lusty with life and rebellion against the confines of the wheelchair he was manoeuvring into the room — |
| 29 | He was given a questionable standing count in the second of three thrilling rounds , but he spent too much time battling rather than boxing and too much time on the ropes instead of using his footwork . |
| 30 | That is why he spent as much time as he possibly could outside the ring , talking about anything but the council tax . |