Example sentences of "more time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week . |
| 2 | A male colleague of Perkins ' , working at the same grade , is also taking a day off a week to spend more time with his children and perhaps this is the most heartening news of all . |
| 3 | Still to come is the awful Ghost Dad , basically another attempt to get Bill Cosby 's TV act to work on the big screen ( Bill plays a workaholic dad who , once dead , gets to spend more time with his family ) . |
| 4 | After a few weeks the foal gains sufficient confidence to start establishing friendships with other foals , and as the weeks pass it will spend more time with them , and less with its mother — unless it is frightened , and then it will dash back to her side for security and reassurance . |
| 5 | Perhaps he spends more time with his wife when he 's ashore these days . ’ |
| 6 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 7 | Three months ago , Christine decided to restrict herself to two nights a week working at Anglia Television and concentrate on writing and on spending more time with Doc D , thinking up new projects for them both . |
| 8 | Spend a little more time with new residents . |
| 9 | She told the Herald that she would miss Le Court and probably be homesick for a little while but she wanted to spend more time with her husband and family . |
| 10 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 11 | After Madeleine left , Edouard spent more and more time with the little boy -every free moment . |
| 12 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 13 | Resigned as employment secretary in January 1990 to spend more time with his family . |
| 14 | Has since resigned from his family to spend more time with John Major . |
| 15 | Councillor Spencer Rosie , much to the loss of the community he served , resigned from Orkney Islands Council in April 1991 , due , he said to pressure of work , and the wish to spend more time with his own growing family . |
| 16 | Larissa , 40 , became a teacher so that she would have more time with her children , but she spends most of her spare time in queues . |
| 17 | The normally outgoing Garel-Jones has been looking tired lately , say his friends , who believe he genuinely wants to bow out of the spotlight and spend more time with his family . |
| 18 | He told Mr Major he will leave once the Maastricht Treaty is ratified by Parliament , adding that he wanted to spend more time with his family and pursue his interests in the art world . |
| 19 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It will mean more time with me and with his family . |
| 21 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 22 | So it 's less time in the library , and more time with a brush in one hand and this month 's copy of AIM in the other . |
| 23 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 24 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |
| 25 | Despite his business commitments , Mr Branson now spends more and more time with his second wife Joan and two children at home in the village of Kidlington , Oxon , where the garden contains a Balinese pavilion . |
| 26 | Handing Charles that seemingly harmless role gave him the chance to spend yet more time with the woman he still admired . |
| 27 | The 32-year-old libero , regarded as one of the most accomplished and stylish defenders in world soccer , turned his back on the national team last month to spend more time with his family . |
| 28 | ‘ I spend more time with my four dogs than anyone else because I am often alone writing . |
| 29 | MICKEY ROURKE 'S wife CARRIE OTIS has turned down a £500,000 cosmetics deal so she can spend more time with her hubby … |
| 30 | But I suspect that the unhappiness at home threw me even deeper into my ornithology , and made me want to spend more and more time with birds . |