Example sentences of "of time [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geese spend a lot of time flying to other places . |
| 2 | I spent a lot of time listening to records and just hanging out with friends . |
| 3 | A ward sister may perceive the student who spends a lot of time chatting to a particular patient as wasting her time when there is work to do , whilst the student may see herself as legitimately practising her ‘ social interaction skills ’ , and attending to the psychological needs of the patient . |
| 4 | In most day units , whatever they are called , attenders normally spend a good deal of time chatting to other attenders or sitting about watching the world go by , doing nothing very much . |
| 5 | I regularly take such groups of boys walking , and sometimes spend a lot of time apologising to other walkers . |
| 6 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 7 | Being unmarried and childless she was unaware that many quite normal women spent a great deal of time talking to and feeding people whom they would not , themselves , have chosen to entertain . |
| 8 | Erm Ray raised an interesting point , loading for management time , for example Ray would argue that he spends a disproportionate amount of time travelling to meetings , more than any of the other members |
| 9 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 10 | With that goes an awareness of time leading to simple enjoyment and tranquillity . |
| 11 | Claims which ought to be settled rarely improve with delay , the passage of time leading to awards increased by inflation , interest and expenses . |
| 12 | Mr Tarry said he had devoted a lot of time going to meetings and discussing what to do next . |
| 13 | ‘ I spent a lot of time attending to it , but I ran all the way , which is good enough , ’ he said . |