Example sentences of "spend the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are n't there more important things in my life that I could spend the time on that is currently taken up with exercise ? ’ |
| 2 | A Guardian stalwart made a telling observation about him : ‘ While Ian Wolldridge might spend hours searching for the good line , Hugh will spend the time searching for the truth ’ — and suddenly I saw McIlvanney almost as if he were a bare-knuckle fighter in one of his brother 's novels . |
| 3 | ‘ While Ian Wooldridge might spend hours searching for a good line , McIlvanney will spend the time searching for the truth ’ |
| 4 | I do n't mind because if you 've got the questions we 'll we 'll certainly spend the time . |
| 5 | Do n't spend the time . |
| 6 | I spent the time before it boning up on things like Troops Out . |
| 7 | He stayed in Paris for a week , and spent the time looking at paintings and collecting souvenirs — a stone from the Bastille , for example ; yet on his arrival in Orleans he met officers and members of Royalist clubs . |
| 8 | They spent the time there swimming and walking , and when the holidays were over they used to return home . |
| 9 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 10 | Instead of this , Morita spent the time taking clocks apart , listening to Western classical music and preferring to study physics to putting himself into business . |
| 11 | Television cameras were covering the bill and a number of those opposite the prying lenses spent the time waving at the cameras . |
| 12 | She met John frequently now by arrangement but always they spent the time where they were not likely to be seen . |
| 13 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 14 | She probably spent the time it took her to get to Alès working out her story . |
| 15 | I 'm doubly grateful that you spent the time with me , Jenna , dear , when you were probably pining to get back to your fiancé . ’ |
| 16 | Not having to visit Fleet Street meant that her afternoon and evening off could be genuinely relaxing , and she usually spent the time knitting , sewing or reading , with only the occasional foray up West . |
| 17 | I spent the time making the house look nice ; I wanted him to know just what a lovely home I could build for us . |
| 18 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 19 | She found it impossible to settle after his visit , and spent the time until she went to bed silently reviling him . |
| 20 | But as the promised storm broke , and they sheltered in the café eating more ice-creams , Shelley spent the time trying to imagine anyone setting their cap at her silent and uncommunicative boss . |
| 21 | Teri was a high fashion catwalk model for 10 years , and spent the time between shows talking to and watching her fellow models . |
| 22 | ‘ We spent the time avoiding bombs , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Pouring out of thanks for the young Timothy who spent the time in prayer if you wish to say a short simple prayer of thanks do so end it thank you God and we 'll all join in thank you God . |
| 24 | He considered , now , that he should have spent the time he had wasted on all that fiction in working on his great book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge instead . |
| 25 | How many of us have spent the time to get to know that person imprisoned in the vagrant ? |
| 26 | He lost his hair through chemotherapy treatment and has spent the time since recovering from the disease , which spread to his lungs . |
| 27 | ‘ We have spent the time very quietly getting to know each other again , and in John 's case , picking up with friends and family . |
| 28 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 29 | Though he 'd spoken with Klein daily there was no sign of a commission yet , so he had spent the time re-educating himself . |
| 30 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |