Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if you feel they 're spending too much time on this , you can have a hostile Ghost arrive and attack . |
| 2 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 3 | Ministers are spending so much time wondering who else might go that little governing is getting done . |
| 4 | From these you can begin questioning why you are spending so much time on certain activities and less on others . |
| 5 | ‘ We were only being cautious anyway , thinking of waiting to tell people , but everything seems to be going smoothly this time . ’ |
| 6 | I have no idea what I shall be doing even this time next year ; I have n't any achievements or even firm plans that I could offer you . |
| 7 | Campbell will be spending even less time with Scotland 's international players . |
| 8 | No one could be spending this much time , money and energy , and saying , ‘ We 're getting there , ’ like the crew of a fishing boat struggling to reach harbour , if that tumour had grown . |
| 9 | Not that she cared that they were going to be spending so much time together , she reminded herself hastily . |
| 10 | Academics were always worried that young people would be spending too much time ‘ looking towards money ’ rather than their studies . |
| 11 | Older children were losing too much time off school . |
| 12 | We were spending too much time sitting . |
| 13 | However , you will also learn that a major cause of sexual dissatisfaction is allowing too little time for foreplay . |
| 14 | Why is wasting so much time ? |
| 15 | So I knew I was going away this time . |
| 16 | Pat was more sympathetic , but also admitted that she had become irritable with Tony now that he was spending so much time at home . |
| 17 | Reveals a source : ‘ Chris reckoned he deserved the best as he was spending so much time and money in the place . ’ |
| 18 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 19 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 20 | As an avid reader of Hot Press and several other music mags , I recently decided that I was spending too much time reading about music and not enough time listening to the stuff . |
| 21 | The money was n't the problem though , the real pisser was investing so much time and effort for zero return and knowing we deserved more . |