Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] more time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will do all we can to help customers as much as we can , especially those on low incomes and we want to take more time during the course of the year to evaluate the charge in detail . |
| 2 | ‘ We will do all we can to help customers as much as we can , especially those on low incomes , and we want to take more time during the course of the year to evaluate the charge in detail . |
| 3 | While the nation mourns ( not ) over the sudden cancellation of the SHAKESPEAR 'S SISTER mega-tour , it would seem that the reason behind the decision had little to do with SIOBHAN 's nervous exhaustion and more to do with the fact that hubbie DAVE STEWART wants to spend more time with his wife and less time on his Jack Jones , staring at his fibre-optic carpet . |
| 4 | Norman Lamont delivers his budget and tells the House he wants to spend more time with his family . |
| 5 | President Clinton wants to spend more time with Gennifer Flowers . |
| 6 | He says he wants to spend more time in his constituency . |
| 7 | In addition they are expected to spend more time on Art and Design History and Theory and on Management and Administration . |
| 8 | For example , both student teachers and student nurses are being expected to spend more time in the professional setting , and are being encouraged to appraise their own actions and to be explicit and articulate about what they are doing and why . |
| 9 | I want to spend more time at home and in my constituency . ’ |
| 10 | With all due respect to his constituents , can anyone , particularly such a sophisticated European , honestly want to spend more time in Watford ? |
| 11 | Do the learners need to spend more time in some areas than in others ? |
| 12 | Playboater are to pull out of retailing to allow more time for other projects . |
| 13 | At his farewell , received various gifts from the company and workmates , and said that he plans to devote more time to his allotment and to his duties of vice-chairman and bar-chairman at the Ipswich Conservative Club . |
| 14 | Macca looked a class act , some great passing , and seemed to have more time on the ball than anyone else , but he did n't get into the game quite often enough . |
| 15 | And if you 're wanting to spend more time on Johnson at any stage , this is sort of there 's something that I sort of do n't trust producing some er , you know a play to a load of boxes but erm , la la la , and sheets as well . |
| 16 | She also received a rose arbour for her garden where she plans to spend more time in her retirement . |
| 17 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 18 | Anybody from forty to forty nine , will pay three percent and then they 've got this strange idea that ladies over the age of fifty are going to have more time off work through illness , so they 're going to charge us four percent , and the men three percent . |
| 19 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 20 | A fifty bed cottage hospital is under threat as G Ps have been told to spend more time in their surgeries . |
| 21 | Since then she had tended to spend more time on her own in the flat and to stay with her parents at weekends . |
| 22 | He also intends to spend more time in the air as he holds a pilot 's licence . |
| 23 | And it 's just as well , because you 're going to want more time to yourself . |
| 24 | As you plan these , remember to allow more time between longer races for recovery . |
| 25 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 26 | Will began to spend more time in Stratford , because it was quiet there , and he could do his writing . |
| 27 | Still to come is the awful Ghost Dad , basically another attempt to get Bill Cosby 's TV act to work on the big screen ( Bill plays a workaholic dad who , once dead , gets to spend more time with his family ) . |
| 28 | But by the summer she was beginning to spend more time in the open air , and one August evening she walked to the churchyard . |
| 29 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 30 | He needed to spend more time in Burford , discussing the terms of his future tenancy with James Price . |