Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older children were losing too much time off school . |
| 2 | We were spending too much time sitting . |
| 3 | So I knew I was going away this time . |
| 4 | Thereby it remained , in Britain 's eyes though not in its own , a part of the Empire , which was beginning about that time to be called the Commonwealth , and its citizens remained British subjects . |
| 5 | Pat was more sympathetic , but also admitted that she had become irritable with Tony now that he was spending so much time at home . |
| 6 | Reveals a source : ‘ Chris reckoned he deserved the best as he was spending so much time and money in the place . ’ |
| 7 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 8 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 9 | As an avid reader of Hot Press and several other music mags , I recently decided that I was spending too much time reading about music and not enough time listening to the stuff . |
| 10 | He carried on presenting dancers in an amateur capacity , but it was an activity that was taking up more time than he could afford . |
| 11 | Scott 's network job was taking up more time and concentration than he 'd expected . |
| 12 | It was amazing how little time children wasted . |
| 13 | The money was n't the problem though , the real pisser was investing so much time and effort for zero return and knowing we deserved more . |