Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , that enables that they choose how much time they need , er because it , do I need to go that time or that time ? |
| 2 | I want to spend more time at home and in my constituency . ’ |
| 3 | Gee , formerly an official with the GMB trade union , said that : " I want to spend less time on administration and more on direct issues which affect people and the planet . " |
| 4 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 5 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 6 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 7 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 8 | Firstly , that I seem to spend more time out of the house than in it , and then more time away from home than at home , and finally but just as significantly , more time just watching the world go by then dashing around with it . |
| 9 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 10 | ‘ Ideally , I like to allow enough time so I do n't need to rush and make us both tense . |
| 11 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 12 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 13 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 14 | She thought : I keep forgetting that time is going on . |
| 15 | But you 're , but you 're quite right you , you certainly , you certainly have the right to say look , you know , rather than signing this now er I do need some time to think I mean let's face it there 's a load of s If you turn it over on the back of the credit agree |
| 16 | No but I like her and everything but holy shit , I really I do need some time to go to school and like be by myself . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I do play several times a week , and to be honest you 're not that difficult to beat . ’ |
| 18 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 19 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 20 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
| 21 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 22 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 23 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
| 24 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 25 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 26 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 27 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 28 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 29 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 30 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |