Example sentences of "and [vb past] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , having said that , as I got older and spent more time with my father I began to learn more about him . |
| 2 | He did not feed this to the eagles but sat and ate it himself , and spent more time staring into the deserted depths of Minch 's cage than any other . |
| 3 | The local doc — the guy who 'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier — was on holiday at the time and there was a locum , a deputising doctor in charge of the practice , except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he 'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday , too , and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope . |
| 4 | In maths and language they were less distracted and spent more time on work and routine activities , although in art the pattern was reversed : older children were more often distracted and did less work . |
| 5 | In classrooms where there were two adults , children were generally less distracted and spent more time working than in classrooms where there was only one . |
| 6 | Aye and took more time . |