Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] spend [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 2 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 3 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 4 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 5 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 6 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 7 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 8 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 9 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 10 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 11 | However , the pensione was not particularly comfortable and she preferred to spend more time away from it than in it . |
| 12 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 13 | Owen loved the bustle of the bazaars , of the whole native city , in fact ; but after you had spent some time in them , especially when it was as hot as this , you felt an overwhelming need for space and air , and after forcing their way through the blocked thoroughfares of the Tentmakers ' Bazaar they were glad to emerge into the more open streets . |
| 14 | She told the Herald that she would miss Le Court and probably be homesick for a little while but she wanted to spend more time with her husband and family . |
| 15 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
| 16 | We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury . |
| 17 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 18 | They began to spend less time together . |
| 19 | Not long ago some highly placed career men resigned their jobs because , they said , they wanted to spend more time with their families . |
| 20 | Distracted also by his own uncertain future , he began to spend less time on Lake Street and more on getting back into journalism . |
| 21 | He needed to spend more time in Burford , discussing the terms of his future tenancy with James Price . |
| 22 | He had spent much time on the pier with William and Joe and had returned to find his pupils assembled , eager to learn for once . |
| 23 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 27 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 28 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 29 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 30 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |