Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the time [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent the time making the house look nice ; I wanted him to know just what a lovely home I could build for us . |
| 2 | I see the time coming when the human race will rule as it should rule , as benevolent gardeners , with a great garden in its care . |
| 3 | Melanie , a working mother , is contracted to work four hours a day , but , said Bob , ‘ even though she has the time consuming task of caring for her baby , when the situation has arisen , she has worked full days in order to ensure the smooth running of her team . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We spent the time avoiding bombs , ’ he said . |
| 5 | They passed the time chatting as they knitted or mended . |
| 6 | He passed the time Dreamwalking . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If Jewish control could not be challenged constitutionally it would have to be done by acts of Steel ; and he saw the time approaching when , like the mayor of Bethlehem , he would have to arm his son against the Jews . |