• But she wanted to spend time with her two daughters in the evening.

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  • When one of my business partners was a new mother, she requested an afternoon off to spend time with her daughter.

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  • And now she spends her time worrying about that debt when all she wants to do is spend time with her children.

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  • Ms. Bair has said she plans to write a book, serve on the boards of nonfinancial companies and spend time with her family.

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  • And now she spends time worrying about that debt when all she wants to do is spend time with her children and focus on getting well.

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  • When my wife asked me to take a temporary leave from the hospital to spend time with her, I took a leave from the hospital and spent all my time with her.

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  • "I didn't fantasize about anything other than it would be nice to spend time with her, " Mr. Freeman said in answer to a question about what went through his mind when he used to pass his future wife on the street.

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  • The foundation has become far bigger and achieved far more than she expected when she took the position, at a time when she was looking to spend more time with her teenage children.

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  • Jennifer Reilly left a job as a senior executive with the New York Yankees to spend more time with her family.

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  • Phillips made her final tearful appearance on the station in December 2008 and left to spend more time with her family.

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  • The actress, who is married to writer and actor Ian Kershaw, took time off in 2001 to give birth to her daughter Martha Mo, and had a year's break in 2007 to spend more time with her family.

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  • She will try to arrange to spend some time with her subject, through an interview, a series of interviews, or a day spent shadowing the person.

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  • The 65-year-old, who represents Mid Dorset and North Poole, said it was the right age to retire and she wants to spend more time with her family.

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  • Deciding to leave, says Danaher, was "a long, good process" that came down to wanting to spend more time with her three children, ages 7, 11 and 13.

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  • Ms Slaughter used to be a senior official in the State Department, a job she recently gave up in order to spend more time with her children and return to academia.

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  • She was "relieved, " she told CNN, that it was coming to an end, and she would be able to spend more time with her boys and get her life back to normal.

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  • The Dutch media has speculated that the queen was abdicating to spend more time with her second son Friso, who was injured in an avalanche at an Austrian ski resort last year.

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  • "Forty-seven years ago, I married the girl of my dreams, and, at this point in my life, what is more important to me is to spend more time with her, " Danforth said in his letter to Bush.

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  • In return, travellers can expect to eat beautiful food cooked with ingredients harvested that day from the forest ((can you give an example?)) and to spend time with Hilda in her kitchen learning to cook the El Salvadorian specialty, pupusas (thick corn tortillas stuffed with cheese, beans and pork).

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  • Now and then she would raise herself into a sitting position and then spend a long time with her knees drawn up while she painted her nails or, with a small hand mirror, scrutinized herself for blemishes or unwanted hair.

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  • She estimates that online banking is probably saving her about a day's worth of her time every month--allowing her to spend more time with clients and generate more cash.

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  • When my mother was ill with lung cancer, I was able to spend a great deal of time with her before she passed away.

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  • She also books her business trips to ensure she is at home in time to spend the weekend with her children, ages 13 and six.

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  • Or she confided in you that when she leaves work for the day, she goes home to a television-free home to spend time with a cup of coffee, her husband and absolutely no connection to the internet (it must be torturous to not understand technology).

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  • Anyone even remotely associated with the offending party has to spend less time showcasing his or her skills and more time explaining away their tenure with said company.

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  • His girlfriend at the time and one of her friends said they spend a lot of time getting high with Eric, but his girlfriend and an Army buddy said Eric was also drinking heavily.

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  • We have story after story of a player going out of her way to spend time with a young girl at a tournament or go visit a charity.

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  • On the bright side, Moore's getting to spend a lot of time on indoor craft projects with her kids during what she and her neighbors rate as the worst drought they can remember.

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  • Rousselot was thinking that the day had been eventful enough and that it was time to leave when Simone said he could spend the night with her, if he liked.

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  • Joe has found that if you want to sleep with a woman you have to spend a lot of time talking to her about her interests.

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