Example sentences of "[verb] most [prep] my time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I spent most of my time — too much I would say now — on the secretarial agencies .
3 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 .
4 I spent most of my time with Branwell , so I did n't think very much about the girls .
5 ‘ At Salerno , ’ he continued , ‘ I spent most of my time trying to forget what I had learnt at Cambridge .
6 Being a forestry contractor and spending most of my time in woods and moors , I need a tyre with a lot more traction .
7 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 .
8 At school I worked hard , spending most of my time in the library .
9 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 .
10 I have to say I must have spent most of my time in the toilets .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ I seem to spend most of my time at meetings these days . ’
16 There 's not a great deal for me to say , but I seem to spend most of my time on stage .
17 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 .
18 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 . ’
19 When I 'm off the island during the winter I spend most of my time stuck in front of a computer writing reports .
20 ’ 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 .
21 I spend most of my time working while my wife spends most of the time shopping but erm
22 When I 'm writing a course or even a session within the course , do you know what I spend most of my time writing the objective after a you know , you know but not after .
23 Before I start I actually spend most of my time writing a behavioural measurable etcetera objective .
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