Example sentences of "spend [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite clearly , then , if a child is brought up so that it is exposed constantly to a critical parent , she or he may spend much of the time being an adapted child . |
| 2 | The odds are that the engine of public policy change will , in fact , make few significant journeys and will spend most of the time hissing and panting in a siding . |
| 3 | We 'll spend most of the time in bed . ’ |
| 4 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 5 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 6 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 7 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 8 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 9 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 10 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |
| 11 | He spent much of the time swerving and cursing other drivers . |
| 12 | Tom and Brian spent much of the time reading . |
| 13 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 14 | At a rally addressed by Labour 's Dennis Healey , they spent most of the time trying to avoid one of their school dinner ladies , who was forever shouting to the platform : ‘ You 're just feathering the beds for the Tories . ’ |
| 15 | Whatever the weather they spent most of the time waiting for fares , either at one or other of the Railway Stations or the cab ranks in Fisherton Street or Blue Boar Row . |
| 16 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 17 | He spent most of the time on the phone with his bookie . |
| 18 | Ralph spent most of the time studying his newspaper . |
| 19 | In the event , the job proved a disappointment and , in his own words , he spent most of the time ‘ stacking shelves , pushing trolleys and sweeping floors ’ . |
| 20 | He was supposed to be the paper 's foreign correspondent but instead of filing everyday reports like the other journalists he became obsessed with chasing after so-called spies and spent most of the time commuting between East and West Germany hoping to land the big scoop . ’ |
| 21 | We spent most of the time on the planet acid : the best place for us to be . |
| 22 | I was helping Aunt Tone prepare stuff in the kitchen but had to give up when Lewis and Verity volunteered to assist as well , and then spent most of the time feeding one another little bits of food , goosing each other and going into sardinely-intimate huddles punctuated by low whispers , bursts of baboon-like giggles and convincingly porcine snorts . |
| 23 | He read English at Cambridge — ‘ actually I spent most of the time reading opera ’ and went on to become one of the first crop of the Arts Council 's pioneering Arts Administration course , which was ‘ a bit Heath Robinsonish then , but still a wonderful grounding ’ . |
| 24 | After a twenty minute delay Cyril took his place but spent most of the time smiling at the audience . |
| 25 | We spent most of the time on the Thames and Medway keeping observations on shipping . |
| 26 | We even looked under the ancient stalls the Templars once sat in , and I confess ( as is the wont of old Shallot ) I did little work but spent most of the time admiring the brilliant carvings on the misericord of each stall . |
| 27 | Apart from offices , we spent most of the time outside . |
| 28 | Benjamin spent most of the time sitting in a chair staring at the guttering candle flame , whilst my sleep was racked by terrible nightmares of my visit to Montfaucon . |
| 29 | For the production crew , filming the six-part series meant spending much of the time crawling around on the floor . |
| 30 | Douglas had spent much of the time explaining to the table the intricacies of the plot of his next novel ; Leon Brittan had been rather short with him . |