Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [prep] my time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't spend much of my time with the other caddies , Inspector . |
| 2 | Freddie took my few belongings up to the garret where I was to sleep and spend most of my time until the baby was born . |
| 3 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 4 | I spent much of my time with my father , watching him sketch , or fish for salmon in the Slaney . |
| 5 | Most of my Eton contemporaries at Oxford were at Christ Church , Trinity , Balliol or New College , and it was with them I spent much of my time . |
| 6 | I spent most of my time — too much I would say now — on the secretarial agencies . |
| 7 | By the time I was ten , swimming had become my main occupation , and I spent most of my time butter-flying across the pool , swallowing large gulps of water in my excitement . |
| 8 | I spent most of my time with Branwell , so I did n't think very much about the girls . |
| 9 | ‘ At Salerno , ’ he continued , ‘ I spent most of my time trying to forget what I had learnt at Cambridge . |
| 10 | Little did I realise that I would end my ministerial career by spending much of my time on the Welsh Grand Committee . |
| 11 | Being a forestry contractor and spending most of my time in woods and moors , I need a tyre with a lot more traction . |
| 12 | Although I was spending most of my time writing the book on Americans abroad , I see from my records of the late 1960s that I was also presenting several television programmes , both in London and in the north . |
| 13 | At school I worked hard , spending most of my time in the library . |
| 14 | The 1970s rolled by and increasingly I found myself spending most of my time in Scottish waters with Venturous , based either at Aberdeen or Leith . |
| 15 | I have to say I must have spent most of my time in the toilets . |
| 16 | and I do prefer to work on the er on a personal recommendations or referrals basis because that actually allows me to , to devote most of my time to my current clients without having to go out cold calling and looking for people . |
| 17 | You did n't get that in my time . |
| 18 | These seem to be the topics that engage most of my time , and there is no evidence that any of them are freakish , minority interests . |
| 19 | I seemed to spend much of my time assisting the chef and painting but this did nothing to damp my enthusiasm . |
| 20 | During my visit to Proctor and Gamble I expected to spend most of my time listening to smart women complain about having their key strokes counted . |
| 21 | I 'm outgoing , I enjoy being active and I like to spend most of my time — when I 'm not studying marine biology — scuba diving . |
| 22 | ‘ I seem to spend most of my time at meetings these days . ’ |
| 23 | There 's not a great deal for me to say , but I seem to spend most of my time on stage . |
| 24 | I spend much of my time at the shops ; wandering through the aisles , faltering , never knowing what to buy . |
| 25 | The telephone has to be manned 24 hours a day , 7 days a week , so when it is my turn on duty ( at night or at the weekends ) , answering the phone occupies much of my time . |
| 26 | Working as an au pair I spend most of my time in the house with young children , so I dress casually — usually in tracksuits or jeans . |
| 27 | And anyway , I 'm only there for a very small part of the year ; I spend most of my time at school , where there 's twelve beds to a room … dorm … and one can never be alone , it 's not allowed . ’ |
| 28 | When I 'm off the island during the winter I spend most of my time stuck in front of a computer writing reports . |
| 29 | ’ I spend most of my time working so most of my money goes in the bank for a rainy day or for my children 's education . |
| 30 | I spend most of my time working while my wife spends most of the time shopping but erm |