Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , that enables that they choose how much time they need , er because it , do I need to go that time or that time ? |
| 2 | I want to spend more time at home and in my constituency . ’ |
| 3 | Gee , formerly an official with the GMB trade union , said that : " I want to spend less time on administration and more on direct issues which affect people and the planet . " |
| 4 | However , I want to leave sufficient time for the Minister to answer . |
| 5 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 6 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 7 | I knew what I 'd witnessed last time I 'd seen one of those in the possession of a malai officer . |
| 8 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 9 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 10 | I seem to remember last time you got two stickers did n't you , cos you had super clean teeth ? |
| 11 | Firstly , that I seem to spend more time out of the house than in it , and then more time away from home than at home , and finally but just as significantly , more time just watching the world go by then dashing around with it . |
| 12 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 13 | ‘ Ideally , I like to allow enough time so I do n't need to rush and make us both tense . |
| 14 | And I remember saying one time to our doctor |
| 15 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 16 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 17 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 18 | She thought : I keep forgetting that time is going on . |
| 19 | But you 're , but you 're quite right you , you certainly , you certainly have the right to say look , you know , rather than signing this now er I do need some time to think I mean let's face it there 's a load of s If you turn it over on the back of the credit agree |
| 20 | No but I like her and everything but holy shit , I really I do need some time to go to school and like be by myself . |
| 21 | I do work full time , I 'm a community worker . |
| 22 | Well , I , I , mean I have been in before and I did say last time we were n't very happy , . |
| 23 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 24 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 25 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 26 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 27 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 28 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 29 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 30 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |