Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] too much time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 2 | In a talk with the Prime Minister this morning he asked whether I thought too much time of Ministers was taken up by Committees and whether there were too many Committees . |
| 3 | I have too much time to think then and that , that 's what throws me . |
| 4 | ‘ Rohan will tell you , mademoiselle , that I spend too much time on my researches . |
| 5 | Or — as is very common — do you spend too much time worrying about what other people think of you ? |
| 6 | As one of them said on being asked if she ever felt that she spent too much time on her own in the daytime : |
| 7 | Have you spent too much time in the sun today ? ’ |
| 8 | Though some local followers complain that she spends too much time in West End theatres and not enough in party meetings , Miss Jackson seems well-informed about her part of London , down-to-earth and fully committed to becoming a Labour MP . |
| 9 | The second drawback is that if you spend too much time standing back , commenting on what 's going on , using humour and changing the subject you may end up disrupting a collective sense of purpose and fail to meet your objective . |
| 10 | You spend too much time with those wounded soldiers . ’ |
| 11 | Recent organizational changes are , for the more experienced officers , evidence of serious misunderstanding at headquarters about real pollution control work : ‘ If you spend too much time in an office you ca n't do your public relations — you ca n't respond promptly to protect the good name of [ the authority ] . |
| 12 | ‘ You spend too much time indoors ! |
| 13 | If you find you have too much time on your hands , take up a new interest — or even more than one . |
| 14 | I , yo yo , you spend too much , you waste too much time . |
| 15 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 16 | Do n't touch it with a barge pole , they take too much time but very very rarely do you need to write , to draw the diagram in the short answer questions . |
| 17 | Women seem fearful of becoming too friendly with a single mother ; fearful that if they spend too much time with her , they might just get a taste for something that is denied them . |
| 18 | ‘ He did , once , but he threw them out of his house ; he thought he wasted too much time telling his two youngest sons bed-time stories . ’ |
| 19 | Davie Cooper , the Rangers and Motherwell winger once told the press he was a bad example for young players to follow : he spent too much time in the bookies . |
| 20 | Some teachers identified an increase in paperwork and one felt that he spent too much time trying to raise the money for new projects from sources outside school before the head took the request for funding seriously . |
| 21 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 22 | She recognised that her son had not always been as attentive as expected towards his wife or the children and that he spent too much time with friends like Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 23 | The fair hair had faded to a dusty grey , and his skin looked pale and unhealthy , as if he spent too much time indoors , but the green eyes were lusty with life and rebellion against the confines of the wheelchair he was manoeuvring into the room — |
| 24 | He was given a questionable standing count in the second of three thrilling rounds , but he spent too much time battling rather than boxing and too much time on the ropes instead of using his footwork . |
| 25 | Emil himself and Oliver delivered the necessary , although Emil on his return said he hoped this was n't going to happen at lunch and dinner also , because it took too much time . |
| 26 | Because he had too much time , he 'd go to the club afternoon and night . |
| 27 | But the Nikkei Industrial Daily sounds a note of warning for NEC : there are two pitfalls for the company with the current order , it says : the sheer difficulty of running a development project to create the mainframe software that makes up the ‘ Fourth Online System ’ — people involved with the development of Third Online Systems predicted the end of such enormous projects ; and the danger of overlooking the trend towards downsizing because it devotes too much time and too many resources on the project . |
| 28 | He said too much time was spent at watering places … ‘ when frequently the waters do less good than dissipation do ( does ) injury . ’ |
| 29 | The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone . |
| 30 | Icy end : Christopher Dean is divorcing fellow ice skater Isabelle Duchesnay because he says she is demanding he spend too much time helping her career . |