Example sentences of "[adj] time [verb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 2 | Finding no answers , partly because they do not spend much time looking for them , they assume that it can not be true ; the differences must be ‘ sufficiently deep and of sufficient significance to warrant , at least in a literate society , the continued emphasis on schooling and the acquisition of literacy ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 3 | So they spend less time searching for you and more time in your company . |
| 4 | She imagined the young doctor coming to this simple village , the home of his grandmother , to build his business empire , getting to know and love the villagers as he did so , and deciding to live with them and spend his spare time caring for them as a doctor . |
| 5 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 6 | In September 1989 Chadli announced the postponement of local elections , originally scheduled for December , following complaints from the opposition parties that they had not had enough time to prepare for them . |
| 7 | The Minister of State is not yet the Foreign Secretary and there is little time left for him to become Foreign Secretary . |