Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] spend [adj] 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 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 9 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 12 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 13 | Because I 've spent more time trying it . |
| 14 | I 've spent enough time watching her paint me ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And now I 've spent enough time here — I have clients to see . ’ |
| 16 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Do you want to spend some time on those ECG tracings this afternoon , George ? |
| 24 | She also received a rose arbour for her garden where she plans to spend more time in her retirement . |
| 25 | Funny that , because you seem to spend enough time here . |
| 26 | However , the pensione was not particularly comfortable and she preferred to spend more time away from it than in it . |
| 27 | And you 've spent some time doing this , do n't you , Adam ? |
| 28 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You come to spend more time together than you are now because you go home in the evenings she goes out . |