Example sentences of "more time [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will mean more time with me and with his family . |
| 2 | ‘ I spend more time with me hand , it 's a lot less f—ing hassle , ’ claims Mark . |
| 3 | I may plea with her to spend more time with me , but finally she chooses . |
| 4 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 5 | Now I spend a bit more time with her because I do n't go out to work until later , before I was starting at seven . |
| 6 | ‘ You ought , ’ said Emma softly , ‘ to spend more time with her . |
| 7 | I 'd like to spend a little more time with her than that . ’ |
| 8 | Not long ago some highly placed career men resigned their jobs because , they said , they wanted to spend more time with their families . |
| 9 | Norman Lamont 's family says it does n't want to spend more time with him . |
| 10 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 11 | She told the Herald that she would miss Le Court and probably be homesick for a little while but she wanted to spend more time with her husband and family . |
| 12 | Larissa , 40 , became a teacher so that she would have more time with her children , but she spends most of her spare time in queues . |
| 13 | MICKEY ROURKE 'S wife CARRIE OTIS has turned down a £500,000 cosmetics deal so she can spend more time with her hubby … |
| 14 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
| 15 | Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother . |
| 16 | Eleanor Pitman ( Kent ) one of the first Qualified Teachers , Eleanor looks forward to spending and enjoying more time with her family . |
| 17 | After a few weeks the foal gains sufficient confidence to start establishing friendships with other foals , and as the weeks pass it will spend more time with them , and less with its mother — unless it is frightened , and then it will dash back to her side for security and reassurance . |
| 18 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 19 | With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week . |
| 20 | A male colleague of Perkins ' , working at the same grade , is also taking a day off a week to spend more time with his children and perhaps this is the most heartening news of all . |
| 21 | Still to come is the awful Ghost Dad , basically another attempt to get Bill Cosby 's TV act to work on the big screen ( Bill plays a workaholic dad who , once dead , gets to spend more time with his family ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps he spends more time with his wife when he 's ashore these days . ’ |
| 23 | Resigned as employment secretary in January 1990 to spend more time with his family . |
| 24 | Councillor Spencer Rosie , much to the loss of the community he served , resigned from Orkney Islands Council in April 1991 , due , he said to pressure of work , and the wish to spend more time with his own growing family . |
| 25 | The normally outgoing Garel-Jones has been looking tired lately , say his friends , who believe he genuinely wants to bow out of the spotlight and spend more time with his family . |
| 26 | He told Mr Major he will leave once the Maastricht Treaty is ratified by Parliament , adding that he wanted to spend more time with his family and pursue his interests in the art world . |
| 27 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 28 | Despite his business commitments , Mr Branson now spends more and more time with his second wife Joan and two children at home in the village of Kidlington , Oxon , where the garden contains a Balinese pavilion . |
| 29 | The 32-year-old libero , regarded as one of the most accomplished and stylish defenders in world soccer , turned his back on the national team last month to spend more time with his family . |
| 30 | While the nation mourns ( not ) over the sudden cancellation of the SHAKESPEAR 'S SISTER mega-tour , it would seem that the reason behind the decision had little to do with SIOBHAN 's nervous exhaustion and more to do with the fact that hubbie DAVE STEWART wants to spend more time with his wife and less time on his Jack Jones , staring at his fibre-optic carpet . |