Example sentences of "spend [adv] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 2 | I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute . |
| 3 | You should n't spend so much time with her you know . |
| 4 | ‘ It is a little strange … that you , the Burgermeister , should spend so much time in the theatre . ’ |
| 5 | All food , but especially meat , poultry , fish and milk , should spend as little time as possible at temperatures between 5°C ( 41°F ) and 63°C ( 145°F ) . |
| 6 | Though EIGHT may read well , he may not spend as much time at reading by himself as he did at seven and he again likes very much to be read to . |
| 7 | Michael Short , the director of the National Association for Gifted Children , says prodigies should spend as much time as possible with their peer group . |
| 8 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 9 | The strangest point came from Steve the sculptor : ‘ At least you do n't spend as much time rushing to the loo as when you drink lemonade , and you burp less . ’ |
| 10 | I only wish and I mean this very sincerely I only wish we could spend as much time and as often as is spent discussing fox hunting on the county 's homeless , on abused children , on the handicapped , on the increasing crime and on unemployment and I only wish that the media and the public and even members of this council would take as much notice of that as they do about this debate on fox hunting . |
| 11 | They say they will spend as much time as they can together in the interests of their children . |
| 12 | The new owners , Richard Rowlands , a solicitor , and Derota Rees-Lik , do not intend to live on the island but have said they will spend as much time there as possible . |
| 13 | In the lakes so , they 're gon na spend as much time as they can round the |
| 14 | Radical reform of initial teacher training will also mean all primary school student teachers must spend far more time in the classroom and less in college . |
| 15 | Radical reform of initial teacher training will also mean all primary school student teachers must spend far more time in the classroom and less in colleges and universities . |
| 16 | You have to plan each meal to make sure both that the patient has a well balanced diet , and that you do not spend too much time and energy on journeys to and from the kitchen . |
| 17 | Or — as is very common — do you spend too much time worrying about what other people think of you ? |
| 18 | Top management might spend too much time in maintenance of the organisation ( ie with problems of administration ) and lose sight of their primary tasks of setting objectives and planning for the future . |
| 19 | Do n't spend too much time on what is n't . |
| 20 | 2 Do n't spend too much time correcting one individual or just saying " NO " . |
| 21 | They actually do n't spend too much time looking at the screen , they 're actually using dumb terminals to enter data very quickly . |
| 22 | The first thing and these are statistical problems that we wo n't spend too much time on them but just make sure they are our error term in this equation , right , is no longer a random error term it 's dependent on it 's value in the previous period right , cos B T actually represents U T minus sumfunction of E T minus one right . |
| 23 | ‘ Getting back to more important matters , we 've only a limited supply of food and water , so I do n't think we dare spend too much time here . |
| 24 | and then gradually try and re do n't , do n't spend too much time trying to reconstruct the past because that , you know , you just get further and further behind with the present stuff so you know kind of try and at least make sure that , you know , maybe if you get a job you wo n't be able to go to all the classes but at least make sure you , you are in contact with somebody who has that you can get notes off every time , you know , that erm oh hello |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 28 | Will he be as happy as his stepmother to indulge the coach parties , the corporate guests , the Japanese tourists with whom Raine and her husband spent so much time ? |
| 29 | I spent so much time with them that I began to think like them , to see the world from their point of view . |
| 30 | 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 ! |