Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to spend more time at home and in my constituency . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 5 | ‘ Ideally , I like to allow enough time so I do n't need to rush and make us both tense . |
| 6 | She thought : I keep forgetting that time is going on . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've said that time and again . |
| 10 | Since I retired I 've had more time on my hands and I pass it , you might say , in reading and reflection on my area of interest . |
| 11 | I think I 've had enough time in school . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've had some time to check this Dream , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I have n't really had a vacation , this is the first time I 've taken some time off and I barely got here ; just because of the pace of the world , especially last year . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 15 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 16 | Because I 've spent more time trying it . |
| 17 | I 've spent enough time watching her paint me ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And now I 've spent enough time here — I have clients to see . ’ |
| 19 | I 've got more time for him than either our lot or the Americans , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 20 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
| 21 | I have devoted some time to the Aplysia story here , not only because of the significance of Eric Kandel 's achievement in terms of its wealth of experimental data and theoretical model building , but perhaps above all because of the place it has come to occupy , not only in the text-books , making memory research neurophysiologically respectable , but in the framing of the research field . |
| 22 | For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can . |
| 23 | I 'm afraid I have had little time to entertain you or introduce you to Hochhauser . |
| 24 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | Finally , the concern with manipulation means that postclassical criminology is correctionalist , as were its classical and positivist predecessors ; that is why I have spent some time , in Chapter 3 , countering anti-correctionalist arguments . |
| 26 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |