Example sentences of "as [adj] time [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles became as adept at changing nappies and bathing William as Diana , and , even when he was small , both spent as much time as they could with him . |
| 2 | Both she and Dr Leitch spent as much time as they could spare talking to the young parents who would come to collect these patients on discharge . |
| 3 | If training officers themselves are not common , staff who can devote as much time as they would like , to training , ( whatever their title ) appear to be very rare indeed . |
| 4 | In hospital , the parents can be enabled to spend as much time as they wish with their sick child , and efforts can be made to keep to the child 's familiar routines ( Rutter , 1979b ) . |
| 5 | There are two girl keepers who spend as much time as they can with him and are giving him so many titbits that he 's getting thoroughly spoiled . |
| 6 | They say they will spend as much time as they can together in the interests of their children . |
| 7 | In the lakes so , they 're gon na spend as much time as they can round the |
| 8 | For the next 2½ years we spent as much time as we could at the melin . |
| 9 | ‘ When you spend as much time as we did trying to stop others scoring tries , you do n't have much time to argue with the ref ’ — ZIMBABWE 's REPRESENTATIVE when accepting the World Cup Fair Play Award . |
| 10 | For a week after his punishment Endill spent as much time as he could lying down . |
| 11 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 12 | North Adams mayor John Barrett , who chairs MASSMoCA 's Cultural Development Commission , interprets this as license to take as much time as he needs to find the additional funds . |
| 13 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 14 | 10 With a machine , the learner may devote as much time as he wishes to practice . |
| 15 | That is why he spent as much time as he possibly could outside the ring , talking about anything but the council tax . |
| 16 | Spending as much time as he could with Midge , Patrick found her extraordinarily rational . |
| 17 | Because of his working hours he is not giving as much time as he ought perhaps to his family , although he 's always tried to ensure that weekends are devoted to his children . |
| 18 | If this remains true today , it is probably because the House does not have the same pressures placed on its time as the Court of Appeal and is able to devote as much time as it wishes to oral argument . |
| 19 | It 's far from intuitive , and galling to waste as much time as it takes . |
| 20 | All right , go wherever you like and take as much time as you want . |
| 21 | I shall be writing the notes on my experiments , of course , and I intend to spend as much time as I can refuting Carslake 's idiotic principle . |
| 22 | If I 've got a lot to do I ca n't actually take as much time as I 'd like over it . |
| 23 | I took my parents when I , my son was two and a half , and I can honestly say that my son , I was n't able to devote as much time as I would have wanted to give . |