Example sentences of "spending time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she softened her demanding when to spending time listening to Lucy , thrilling her with music and words , filled with a need to have Lucy know she was loved unconditionally . |
| 2 | But often I hated spending time with them . |
| 3 | We knew that our first step had to be spending time learning how we could best help Vietnam 's children . |
| 4 | It offers a vision of a future in which the importance of both parents spending time with their children is recognised , as is the right of both sexes to use their skills in the workplace to the extent of their abilities , for the benefit of us all . |
| 5 | Fred , from Newcastle , still finds things hard , even after spending time in a ‘ halfway house ’ which let him get used to paying his own way . |
| 6 | We see him depicted as a young boy in Luke 2 , obedient to his parents , going up to the Temple and spending time with the learned men asking questions . |
| 7 | Another said : ‘ I love spending time with you . |
| 8 | You 'd be better off spending time seeking out the great women of your own day , young man ; turn off that radio . |
| 9 | We can only become familiar with this new world by spending time in it . |
| 10 | It is well worth spending time to get the anchorages securely placed in line with the fence . |
| 11 | Gedge began spending time away from Leeds writing new material . |
| 12 | A Russian director , criticized for spending time advising an old peasant woman about the care of her turkeys , replied , ‘ Not at all , her whole life is in those turkeys . ’ |
| 13 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 14 | All this on top of the irony of an innocent request he made to a man with a radio listening to the cricket immediately he arrived in England after spending time with his family in Barbados . |
| 15 | He lists expression of love through words , touch , spending time together , providing material needs and many others . |
| 16 | Before you take to the high street , it is worth spending time with your partner to think carefully about what you will actually need and perhaps more importantly what you both like : it is surprising how much tastes can differ over the smallest of items ! |
| 17 | You can buy some very good invitation cards , but spending time with your child making invitations can be an inventive prelude to a party . |
| 18 | But it is also a very real disincentive to spending time on learning to microwrite and transferring large quantities of address data from my Psion 128K packs . |
| 19 | Spending time with your bass should be like spending time with a good friend . |
| 20 | Spending time with your bass should be like spending time with a good friend . |
| 21 | So it is worth regularly spending time on this exercise . |
| 22 | The drawback to spending time in Câmara de Lobos is the hordes of beggar children who appear nowhere else on the island but are a real nuisance here . |
| 23 | Perhaps if she herself had been more insistent on spending time with Anna … ? |
| 24 | In contrast , Greg has a short-back-and-sides haircut , is 6ft 5½in , 15 stone and is studying estate management — spending time at present with a firm of chartered surveyors near Oxford Street . |
| 25 | Spending time with McIllvanney was not my idea of relaxation , and I did n't much take to his lack of enthusiasm . |
| 26 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
| 27 | ‘ He and I are always spending time together but we are not romantically inclined , ’ she said . |
| 28 | She shot off on holiday , spending time with Wyatt … and feeling sorry for herself that her husband was away so much . |
| 29 | Such pressures can lead to lack of environmental awareness or at least an understandable questioning of whether spending time or money or both on improving classroom ecology justifies the effort involved . |
| 30 | Yes , we do get Rugby Special on a Sunday , at a time when most of the rugby fraternity are spending time recovering from the previous day 's actions , catching up with family life and preparing the next week 's work . |