Example sentences of "of [pron] time [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seemed to spend much of my time assisting the chef and painting but this did nothing to damp my enthusiasm . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was a sort of bird sanctuary on an island in the middle of the lake and I 'd spend a lot of my time watching the comings and goings of the inhabitants . |
| 5 | Many thanks are due to all the members of the old team who have worked so hard for many years and given up so much of their time to represent the Society . |
| 6 | Thus they spent much of their time debating the validity of various evaluation procedures as potential responses . |
| 7 | The deposed Kuwaiti government established its base in the Saudi mountain resort of Taif , although the Amir and his ministers spent much of their time travelling the world to bolster opposition to the invasion . |
| 8 | Very few Branch collecting sheets appear without the names of many cadets , and it is a great encouragement to know that so many are prepared to give up so much of their time to help the Association . |
| 9 | Consequently , the conference spent much of its time discussing the vexed question of whether or not to develop a specifically political platform from which to contest future parliamentary elections , alongside its normal trade union activities . |
| 10 | In practice , she was taking my mother 's place in the home and spent most of her time fulfilling the role of unpaid housekeeper . |
| 11 | She discards her admirers as often as she discards gloves , and poor Mama spends most of her time comforting the latest reject . |
| 12 | It turned out , when I asked another student about her , that she spent most of her time organizing the Drama Society and almost never came into the department . |
| 13 | Overjoyed at having a recognised part to play , he taught the Scriptures , but spent most of his time assisting the poor and the ailing . |
| 14 | He spent most of his time watching the fishermen at work , and wrote with enthusiasm about having made friends with a family of ‘ three brothers , each surpassing the other in beauty ’ and the Spanish wife of one of them , ‘ yellow skin like a magnolia and hair black as moonshine . |
| 15 | This Frederick ( he adopted the English spelling ) was the mysterious grandfather that John Cranko was told of , who was supposed to spend much of his time visiting the fleshpots of Cape Town . |
| 16 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 17 | One person who spends much of his time doing the same thing is Master of Wine Tim Hanni from the Beringer Vineyards School for American Chefs . |
| 18 | During his lifetime Jesus challenged the people of his time to accept the message of the ‘ Good News ’ , or Gospel ( Mark 1:15 ) . |