Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 3 | He needed to spend more time in Burford , discussing the terms of his future tenancy with James Price . |
| 4 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
| 5 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 6 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |
| 7 | He told Mr Major he will leave once the Maastricht Treaty is ratified by Parliament , adding that he wanted to spend more time with his family and pursue his interests in the art world . |
| 8 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 9 | He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections . |