Example sentences of "[verb] much [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have occupied much of the time of the higher courts but are on the margins of land law , which traditionally focuses on the market-place and the importance of documentation as the root of title . |
| 2 | The interviewer is Peter Hayter , an owlish Friar Tuck figure who seems to be troubled by itching much of the time and who uses ‘ I mean ’ as frequently as commas . |
| 3 | Frank was withdrawn much of the time , often sitting for hours with his blindfold down . |
| 4 | Until 1939 internal dissension remained characteristic of the Labour Party , with agitations against Fascism and the National Government 's foreign policy occupying much of the time and energy of the active Party member . |
| 5 | Jessica 's father , like most men in his position in the Province , was watched much of the time , kept an eye on , lightly guarded . |
| 6 | Quite clearly , then , if a child is brought up so that it is exposed constantly to a critical parent , she or he may spend much of the time being an adapted child . |
| 7 | Erm d do you remember much about the time after the first world war ? |
| 8 | He suffers much of the time with sore feet ( furunculosis ) which unfortunately makes him lame . |
| 9 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 10 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 11 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 12 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 13 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |
| 14 | He spent much of the time swerving and cursing other drivers . |
| 15 | Tom and Brian spent much of the time reading . |
| 16 | The swimming was n't very good ; the whole place stank of sardines , and the noble castle turned out to be a youth hostel ; also there was a forty-mile-an-hour gale blowing much of the time . |
| 17 | For the production crew , filming the six-part series meant spending much of the time crawling around on the floor . |
| 18 | Douglas had spent much of the time explaining to the table the intricacies of the plot of his next novel ; Leon Brittan had been rather short with him . |
| 19 | Sales are somewhere in between since although there is a structured sales department , individual salesmen operate much of the time on their own . |
| 20 | I was dancing much of the time on the wedding day . |
| 21 | Like many great villains , Daine must have no conception of how ludicrous he appeared much of the time . |
| 22 | Evan spends much of the time with his eyes clamped shut , rocking gently and scraping notes out of his sore , croaking throat . |
| 23 | His parents will be able to spend much of the time in the ward with him . |
| 24 | Many graduates proceed to research posts in universities , often working much of the time in international laboratories , such as CERN in Geneva . |
| 25 | From Ajaccio they travelled by bus to Porto Vecchio , Minton sleeping much of the time with his mouth open and head lolling against Ross 's shoulder . |