Example sentences of "a lot of time with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you are developing an act up to a record deal , you spend a lot of time with them , ’ confirms Doyle . |
| 2 | I been spending a lot of time with her these days . |
| 3 | During that period , I spent a lot of time with Calvin Mark Lee , basically because he was Lou Reisner 's assistant , and he and I got on really well . |
| 4 | She was n't mean about it , she was very grateful to have someone to talk to and I used to try to spend a lot of time with her just to cheer her up — you know , walk the dog with her and go shopping — just do all the things that would help . |
| 5 | People who have spent a lot of time with horses will have seen most of these emotions in horses at one time or another . |
| 6 | On one memorable occasion , Mac came to one of the dances and spent a lot of time with me , even escorting me back to the Waaf site afterwards , making intelligent conversation about his home in Canada and shaking hands gravely as he said goodnight — so different from the smash and grab tactics I was usually treated to when trying to bring an evening to a satisfactory close . |
| 7 | Yes , she had spent a lot of time with Jack Butler and , yes , she had found him interesting , attractive even . |
| 8 | We spent a lot of time with different amps and different pickups and different guitars , because if you 're playing a major chord on a guitar with a lot of distortion it is n't going to sound good — it 's going to sound like a big mush . |
| 9 | Yet Michael Caine still manages to spend a lot of time with his wife . |
| 10 | Well , Richard and I knew the Duke and Duchess of Windsor quite well , and spent a lot of time with them in Paris , and this was our favourite piece of jewellery . |
| 11 | This meant that I had , from the beginning , to spend a lot of time with my family while Dawn was learning to sit on my fist . |
| 12 | Clinton spent a lot of time with the trio in Leckford Road . |
| 13 | He spent a lot of time with the Dodger and Charley , and often played the handkerchief game with them . |
| 14 | For this reason we spend a lot of time with relatives trying to help them come to terms with the whole admission process . |
| 15 | They spend a lot of time with their father and treat me like a friend , which is great . ’ |
| 16 | Not a serious rival , of course , but you knew she spent a lot of time with me , and part of you resented that . |
| 17 | But if some nosey neighbour says she often spends a lot of time with me , those policemen are going to pile into her like teeth tearing into a peach . |
| 18 | But what I do n't like is that Hilary Frome seems to spend a lot of time with him . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , you know when you spend a lot of time with someone , you get used to how they speak , their mannerisms and soon … ’ |
| 20 | I spent a lot of time with him . |
| 21 | ‘ We always spend a lot of time with female converts , Wilson , ’ he said , giving h a broad wink . |
| 22 | After that he 'd spent a lot of time with Jekub , poking around , finding out about it . |
| 23 | Zeinab spent a lot of time with this shopkeeper . |
| 24 | I spend I spend a lot of time with them so I spend a lot talking to them . |
| 25 | I spend a lot of time with a lot of girls , it 's my job , I do n't want one of them to run her fingers through my hair and it come away in in her hand you know that 's |
| 26 | I mean , I know we spent a lot of time with the former clerk , |
| 27 | ‘ I spent a lot of time with Phil Silvers talking about his family away from the others , ’ Anita Harris now recalls . |
| 28 | John Lahr spent a lot of time with Ken when working on his Orton books . |
| 29 | ‘ At the moment , yes , because Ian is spending a lot of time with Joanna . |
| 30 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |