Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] much time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was slightly built , and although I hated team sports and games , I spent much time in the school gym doing circuit training and fitness programmes . |
| 2 | I spent much time in that area and I know that brighter things are on the horizon for Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 3 | ‘ I spent much time in the States when I was a girl . |
| 4 | She spent much time in Geneva , working on behalf of the women 's disarmament committee , which was preparing a petition for disarmament prior to the Geneva disarmament conference of 1932 . |
| 5 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 6 | As president of the Federation of University Women she gave much time near the end of her life to compiling the register of university women for war work . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think she had much time for him . |
| 8 | Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then . |
| 9 | They devoted much time to the investigation and publication of wage rates ( A. L. Bowley was recruited for this purpose ) and investigation of labour conditions , including those in the sweated trades . |
| 10 | Leonard also had a little room in the basement in which a piano was kept , where they spent much time together . |
| 11 | Formerly , we are told , people died before they had much time to develop these diseases . |
| 12 | Mr X found the sound of running water reduced his tinnitus ; on bad days he spent much time in the bathroom . |
| 13 | He spent much time visiting most states of the Union and acting as a super salesman for Iran . |
| 14 | From 1883 he spent much time abroad , especially in areas of active volcanoes . |
| 15 | He spent much time today and yesterday denying that he would increase from 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 16 | In his early years in Edinburgh , he spent much time in reorganising and rationalising the pathology service in the Royal Infirmary and associated hospitals and he laid a sure foundation of academic pathology in the Medical School . |
| 17 | Off the pitch he gave much time to helping young players , while on it his play was never selfish , always for the team rather than his average ; and there were times when he batted in great pain rather than let the side down . |
| 18 | He gave much time and energy to advising the government on engineering projects throughout India , and in 1879 he visited Cyprus to report on the harbour at Famagusta . |
| 19 | The only heroes he had much time for were Bravd and the Weasel , who were out of town at the moment , and Hrun the Barbarian , who was practically an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips . |