Example sentences of "spent much time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard also had a little room in the basement in which a piano was kept , where they spent much time together . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1721 , Freville Lambton spent much time at Seaton Delaval , the grandest house in Britain , which Vanbrugh was building . |
| 3 | Its owner , Antonio Greppi , had social aspirations and spent much time and more money creating a fine façade and rooms so luxurious , and so dedicated to rich parties , that the city nobles came in droves . |
| 4 | Harrison spent much time visiting other clinics up and down the country advising on how they might be run more efficiently . |
| 5 | He bought a white 1964 Rover 2.6 Litre and spent much time speeding between Morrissey 's Kensington pad Manchester . |
| 6 | He has fittingly been given a measure of local immortality by Mrs Lavinia Mary Thwaites , who spent much time in the man 's jovial company . |
| 7 | Mr X found the sound of running water reduced his tinnitus ; on bad days he spent much time in the bathroom . |
| 8 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 9 | With her was her bit on the side , one John Bryan , a financial wizard , all the way from Texas , who spent much time in close proximity , valuing her assets . |
| 10 | There are many historic and archaeological sites to visit including Osborne House , owned by the English Heritage , where Queen Victoria spent much time after the death of her beloved Albert . |
| 11 | While children ‘ followed their own interests ’ , the teaching staff , strong on ideals but weak in their implementation of them , spent much time engaged in heated debate with parents and with each other . |
| 12 | His second son , Lionel Duke of Clarence , had died in 1368 , and his third son , John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster , spent much time abroad in the early 1370s . |
| 13 | In 1939 , when the new double tubes were constructed , branching off the Bakerloo system , Ernest spent much time away from the school watching the digging of the new Metropolitan Lines under buildings at Finchley Road . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |
| 16 | He continued his serious studies , and spent much time visiting the sick as usual . |
| 17 | Of course , neither should we forget the shadowy Priory of Sion , the organisation that Lincoln spent much time on in his excellent bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail . |
| 18 | He spent much time visiting most states of the Union and acting as a super salesman for Iran . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He excused himself from diplomatic assignments on the grounds of ( often genuine ) ill health and the poverty of his bishopric , and spent much time improving episcopal residences , especially at Halling and Trottiscliffe . |
| 21 | From 1883 he spent much time abroad , especially in areas of active volcanoes . |
| 22 | He spent much time today and yesterday denying that he would increase from 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 23 | I spent much time in that area and I know that brighter things are on the horizon for Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 24 | What is evident , apart from the fact that Swegen on any reckoning spent much time in England between c.990 and his death in 1014 , is that our knowledge of his activities is patchy , and that English sources may omit important matters . |
| 25 | ‘ I spent much time in the States when I was a girl . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As well as dedication to movement , Beryl had great concern for people and spent much time helping with problems large or small . |