Example sentences of "he [verb] too [det] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 — |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What he was asking her to do required a degree of trust that he had too little time to earn . |
| 9 | Because he had too much time , he 'd go to the club afternoon and night . |
| 10 | He said too much time was spent at watering places … ‘ when frequently the waters do less good than dissipation do ( does ) injury . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |