Example sentences of "spent the [noun sg] [prep] the 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 . |