Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [prep] her time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother , Juanita Beckett , daughter of a brigadier-general and granddaughter of a field marshal , was an enthusiastic but not especially talented pianist , and devoted much of her time to practising a particularly thunderous rendition of Sibelius 's Valse Triste . |
| 2 | Lady Franklin , a ‘ lioness of a woman ’ with a lively sense of curiosity and a keen intelligence , devoted much of her time to promoting the visual arts in the infant colony , and took an avid interest in Mrs Gould 's work for her husband . |
| 3 | She had a live-in boyfriend to whom she devoted most of her time and energy . |
| 4 | According to Freemantle , this work filled most of her time . |
| 5 | I hoped that Herta would spend some of her time playing with the little Wirthses . |
| 6 | In any case , she would spend most of her time on deck . |
| 7 | Cos she 's gon na spend most of her time with Dave and the people living with |
| 8 | Robyn continued to give much of her time and emotional energy to the |
| 9 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 10 | She lived in Quay Street , Saltcoats and for as long as she was able to do so , spent much of her time around the harbour , conversing with the sailors amongst whom she had spent her life . |
| 11 | She was never given any form of education , and spent much of her time secluded with her two sisters and her aunt , the Duchess of Rothesay . |
| 12 | Lewis Carroll 's Alice spent much of her time , in the perplexity of early puberty , trying to find out who she was : ‘ Who in the world am I ? ’ |
| 13 | The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation . |
| 14 | Marian spent much of her time either in the Union Building or in the Department 's Library in their house in the Orchards . |
| 15 | She spent much of her time in Swahili-land , where she met the poet and scholar Muhammad Kijumwa al-Bakry , who provided her with manuscripts and information about the language and literature of the Swahili-speaking people . |
| 16 | Perhaps , but Sibylle — who admits that she positively enjoyed much of her time in the Hitler Youth — believes that the ordinary man and woman in the street was n't by inclination a resistance fighter . |
| 17 | She spent most of her time in tears . |
| 18 | She spent most of her time weeping and wailing to whoever would listen to her — and she really did go ‘ Boo-hoo ! ’ exactly as it is written in the books . |
| 19 | In practice , she was taking my mother 's place in the home and spent most of her time fulfilling the role of unpaid housekeeper . |
| 20 | Editor Bill Anderson remembers her as ‘ very much a trainee reporter ’ who spent most of her time writing human interest stories for the centre pages . |
| 21 | So while Maria Candida retched and wailed and dabbed at her nose in the cabin , Sara spent most of her time up on deck , either with Dom Alfonso , who was acting as Dom João 's agent , or — on the calmer days — further for 'd , where she could watch the porpoises leaping round the bows and listen to the creak of timber and the wind in the rigging . |
| 22 | It turned out , when I asked another student about her , that she spent most of her time organizing the Drama Society and almost never came into the department . |
| 23 | Grand though she was , she was rarely allowed to do any nursing , beyond changing the odd dressing So she spent most of her time scrubbing floors . |
| 24 | She did n't talk much about her mother , who was rather withdrawn and authoritarian and spent most of her time playing bridge or playing the piano . |
| 25 | Following her mother 's death in 1914 , May spent most of her time at Kelmscott Manor , the family home in Oxfordshire , living in semi-retirement with her companion , Mary Lobb . |
| 26 | But Mrs McWhirter , cutting her losses , spent most of her time away , on the excuse that she was nursing her mother ; and the daughter , if she felt like coming home , preferred to regard home as where her mother was . |
| 27 | She spent most of her time telling herself that it was the loss of her job that was so catastrophic ; it had nothing to do with Ace Barton . |
| 28 | She could not settle at school , ran away from home on several occasions and spent most of her time alone . |
| 29 | After helping to wash and re-clothe the children , spent most of her time helping to improve living conditions . |
| 30 | Now that Carol Phillips is no longer involved in the nitty gritty of running the company , she is devoting more of her time to the service area of Clinique . |