Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] much time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He did , once , but he threw them out of his house ; he thought he wasted too much time telling his two youngest sons bed-time stories . ’ |
| 2 | On the other hand , if the character ends up in chamber 81d you might allow him to find the ring of Verena since he has so much time to kill . |
| 3 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 4 | Davie Cooper , the Rangers and Motherwell winger once told the press he was a bad example for young players to follow : he spent too much time in the bookies . |
| 5 | Some teachers identified an increase in paperwork and one felt that he spent too much time trying to raise the money for new projects from sources outside school before the head took the request for funding seriously . |
| 6 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 7 | She recognised that her son had not always been as attentive as expected towards his wife or the children and that he spent too much time with friends like Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 8 | The fair hair had faded to a dusty grey , and his skin looked pale and unhealthy , as if he spent too much time indoors , but the green eyes were lusty with life and rebellion against the confines of the wheelchair he was manoeuvring into the room — |
| 9 | He was given a questionable standing count in the second of three thrilling rounds , but he spent too much time battling rather than boxing and too much time on the ropes instead of using his footwork . |
| 10 | That is why he spent as much time as he possibly could outside the ring , talking about anything but the council tax . |
| 11 | He spent so much time preening and posing and intimidating rivals and refusing to enter the competition before the bar became a danger to low-flying aircraft that he failed to clear a height . |
| 12 | It struck her as odd , for example , that Turner , if he spent so much time on Chelsea Reach , should n't have known that a seagull always alights on the highest point . |
| 13 | He spends as much time out of the house as possible , and what they do is too subtle for him to notice . |
| 14 | Then there was the element of fascination — I know practically nothing about him , nor what his business activities are or why he spends so much time in foreign countries . |
| 15 | One reason why Mr Severin 's books are usually impressive is that he spends so much time discussing the historical evidence for his theories . |
| 16 | Because he had too much time , he 'd go to the club afternoon and night . |
| 17 | He said too much time was spent at watering places … ‘ when frequently the waters do less good than dissipation do ( does ) injury . ’ |
| 18 | Icy end : Christopher Dean is divorcing fellow ice skater Isabelle Duchesnay because he says she is demanding he spend too much time helping her career . |