Example sentences of "spend the [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Because Revson just did a small number of American races and spent the rest of the time on the FI circuit .
2 She thought about her fiancé Jonathan , Jonathan Whalley , who worked intermittently in his father 's firm and spent the rest of the time playing hard .
3 Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room .
4 A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber .
5 you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway .
6 Our John spent the rest of the time .
7 Whelan has played in only three North Region events and six pro-ams this year , spending the rest of the time working in his father 's restaurant and glassware gift shop to earn the £1,200 he needed to get to the School .
8 I 'm a very private person and when you 're relating your feelings so intensely through the music , you want to spend the rest of the time with people you like to be with . ’
9 They preferred to have a quick yoghurt at their desks and spend the rest of the time shopping .
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