Example sentences of "[verb] most [prep] her time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a live-in boyfriend to whom she devoted most of her time and energy . |
| 2 | According to Freemantle , this work filled most of her time . |
| 3 | In any case , she would spend most of her time on deck . |
| 4 | Cos she 's gon na spend most of her time with Dave and the people living with |
| 5 | She spent most of her time in tears . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In practice , she was taking my mother 's place in the home and spent most of her time fulfilling the role of unpaid housekeeper . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She did n't talk much about her mother , who was rather withdrawn and authoritarian and spent most of her time playing bridge or playing the piano . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She could not settle at school , ran away from home on several occasions and spent most of her time alone . |
| 17 | After helping to wash and re-clothe the children , spent most of her time helping to improve living conditions . |
| 18 | Our disclosure will of course interest Fergie , who has been spending most of her time with John Bryan but undoubtedly still wears the red and black £100-apiece underwear which she bought from Janet . |
| 19 | That 's where she 's been spending most of her time these last few months . ’ |
| 20 | She told another foreign reporter that she had spent most of her time at the General Staff learning English . |
| 21 | But Madame Zborowska , who seems to have spent most of her time smoothing out the quarrels between the artists , asserted that Modigliani also worked ‘ passionately ’ . |
| 22 | At the moment Graf spends most of her time partnering Gabriela Sabatini . |
| 23 | Although she spends most of her time in transit between one engagement and another , on arrival the destination often looks pretty like the place she has just left . |
| 24 | Unfortunately she 's better at fixing sick engines than sick people and spends most of her time riding around the corridors on her collection of motorbikes . ’ |
| 25 | Marina spends most of her time caring for the younger children who live with her in the cellar — especially nine-month-old Vedo Besagic . |
| 26 | She discards her admirers as often as she discards gloves , and poor Mama spends most of her time comforting the latest reject . |
| 27 | We got her a flat in the same block as ours , although she spends most of her time in here . |
| 28 | She spends most of her time in London . |
| 29 | Kim spends most of her time in the kitchen , charting the progress of her late supper . |
| 30 | But I 'll tell you this much : she 'll have to spend most of her time with you 'cos I could n't put up with her round me feet all day . ’ |