Example sentences of "[verb] most [prep] their time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as the rather skimpy Consciousness and Behaviour outlines , psychologists are having to face the fact that most people do n't spend most of their time behaving like witless rats . |
| 2 | Thus children in a primary school will spend most of their time with the same teacher in any one year , while secondary school pupils will be taught by a variety of different teachers . |
| 3 | Endill and Mould spent most of their time together working on their plan . |
| 4 | For years the family spent most of their time in internecine struggle . |
| 5 | Indeed Katie 's group , when I 'd pushed them into talking about Mitch a little more , spent most of their time examining his picture and finding fault with his appearance . |
| 6 | The Tunisian national team had the questionable pleasure of sharing a training camp with Scotland , their manager Abdelmajid Chetali claimed that Scottish players spent most of their time shirking training . |
| 7 | I gathered that during the summer she and the child spent most of their time on the beach . ’ |
| 8 | In the first instance , it was in many ways conventionally arranged : the teachers and their groups spent most of their time within their home bases where provision was made for most types of activity . |
| 9 | According to IDC 's Steve Frantzen , staff spent most of their time ‘ running around ’ the former Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | Even though there were some special local problems to take into account , to a large extent the regime at Feltham , where teenagers spent most of their time locked up in their cells , was victim to the malaise endemic to the prison system as a whole . |
| 11 | While they were accustomed to being absolute rulers in Hanover they realized that being King of England was more important than being Elector of Hanover and they spent most of their time in England , but they never felt entirely at ease in the forty-six years during which they ruled in London . |
| 12 | And while these women were not displeased with the role of housewife they did not like housework , despite the fact that this was what they spent most of their time doing . |
| 13 | He hated pomp and humbug , and he resigned from the National Academy of Sciences because he found that they spent most of their time deciding which other scientists should be admitted to the Academy . |
| 14 | In our own studies , the ostensibly collaborative setting of the group tended to be one in which children spent most of their time on essentially individual reading and writing tasks . |
| 15 | It rained the whole nine days they were there , so they spent most of their time in the amusement arcades . |
| 16 | They spent most of their time in winter , simply because travelling through the icy storm was so difficult . |
| 17 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 18 | The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world . |
| 19 | The magazine is put together at a leisurely pace with the staff spending most of their time at London 's most fashionable nightspots . |
| 20 | Some are rapid swimmers gathered together in silvery shoals , others sluggish bottom dwellers spending most of their time buried in sediment . |
| 21 | Thomasina had said often that they should play more with their dolls like any other girls , instead of spending most of their time in the ‘ library ’ as she called their shared bedroom . |
| 22 | These creatures seem to live slow , simple lives high up in tropical rainforests , spending most of their time travelling from place to place , eating and napping . |
| 23 | Indeed they had spent most of their time reassuring each other that , despite all my obvious failings , I was almost capable of looking after myself — under their joint and several supervision . |
| 24 | This critical division , between the " basic " skill of the trade ( on which many male compositors also spent most of their time ) and the " more skilled " processes , was to persist after the " learning " stage , and was much to the employers " advantage . |
| 25 | The miners themselves probably found some sort of lodgings in the area but also spent most of their time living in small draughty shelters or " hutts " built near to their work places only severe weather shifting them down to the valley bottoms . |
| 26 | Their education , he said , was irrelevant to their duties , their poverty such that they had to spend most of their time keeping body and soul together . |
| 27 | Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position . |
| 28 | Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position . |
| 29 | All issues which the core left journals , and the left in general , spend most of their time and printed space debating . |
| 30 | The traditional view of zebra stripes is that they act as camouflage , but even in woodland cover this is not convincing and , in any case , zebra herds spend most of their time on open grassland where the stripes can not hide them . |