Example sentences of "[pers pn] spent so [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 2 | I spent so much time with them that I began to think like them , to see the world from their point of view . |
| 3 | Geoffrey was peeved she spent so much time in Meredith 's company . |
| 4 | The latter , riffling some more paperwork furiously and uselessly , wondered to herself if this was the reason Deana squinted so horribly — she spent so much time trying to spy on two people at once . |
| 5 | In this situation you will automatically revert to those fixed-wing reflexes which you spent so much time in developing and they can lead you sadly astray ! |
| 6 | ‘ You spent so much time on your stomach in Australia , ’ comments their stylist Peter . |
| 7 | Like the one you spent so much time talking to . |
| 8 | You spent so much time with her , I felt she even knew you better than I did . |
| 9 | ‘ We spent so much time together . |
| 10 | We used to joke that we almost got nose bleeds when we stood up to our normal size because we spent so much time at floor level . ’ |
| 11 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 12 | They spent so much time in Zap Zone at Streatham , scampering about in clouds of dry ice , zapping each other with laser guns , so many hours watching Neighbours or running up and down shopping-malls , playing Super Nintendo , they had probably not had time to go anywhere near a mosque or get their heads round the basics of Islamic education . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He got the boot after his wife walked out and half the players quit because he spent so little time trying to improve the side 's miserable record in Delmenhorst , Germany . |