Example sentences of "[vb past] much [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 2 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 3 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 4 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 5 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |
| 6 | He spent much of the time swerving and cursing other drivers . |
| 7 | Tom and Brian spent much of the time reading . |
| 8 | Like many great villains , Daine must have no conception of how ludicrous he appeared much of the time . |