Example sentences of "spends all " in BNC.
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| 1 | A retired diplomat who now spends all his time lobbying on Cambodia , has sent a 30-page fax from Los Angeles to my constituency office in Aberdare . |
| 2 | Frankly I do n't believe that households in which one parent spends all his waking moments either out of the house or refitting the patio doors or under the bonnet of a car are doing a better job than I am , where the kids are concerned , but I have n't got any statistics to prove it . |
| 3 | It would be nice to believe that the Health Secretary spends all his time understanding the very latest developments in heart-lung transplants . |
| 4 | WHO SPENDS ALL OR ANY PART OF THE LAST YEAR OF THEIR LIFE IN A RESIDENTIAL HOME ? |
| 5 | Betty now in her late 60s , spends all her time looking after him , helping him dress , wash and go to the toilet . |
| 6 | Gladys who is 68 and has angina and problems with her legs spends all her time looking after her mentally handicapped grand-daughter who also suffers from epilepsy . |
| 7 | He spends all day on the practice ground sometimes and this paid off for him at the German Open . |
| 8 | But a sleek sailing boat that spends all its time in harbour is no use to anyone . |
| 9 | He spends all his time hiding , cloaking and padding things around himself . |
| 10 | Farwaggi , his Arab provenance showing in the bluish ( Camus-esque , thinks Letterman ) stubble which grows stronger as the day progresses , a gentle mycological stain spreading on his eager , almost good-looking face , spends all day on the phone either ordering variations on the club 's menus or rushing to and from the fax office . |
| 11 | spends all she has on a summer decades ago . |
| 12 | Cheri saves her pocket money of $1.50 a week for five weeks , then spends all her money on comic books which cost 25¢ each . |
| 13 | In the massage parlour at lunchtime , Molly Lugg told me her son was now unemployed because his boss , Trevor Proby , was ‘ in chains ’ and she would be grateful if I could find him something to do , as he spends all his time kicking his heels , mostly through shop windows in the High Street . |
| 14 | He spends all his time with us . |
| 15 | He used to scream even at the idea of fresh air , but now he spends all his time outside in his wheelchair , with Miss Mary and Dickon Sowerby . |
| 16 | It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution . |
| 17 | Spends all his time in Orme Gardens or at Streatley . ’ |
| 18 | He spends all his time in the study above his laboratory . |
| 19 | ( c ) The government spends all its revenue . |
| 20 | ‘ He spends all day in his room and has n't been heard to say a word to anyone . |
| 21 | He spends all his free time studying and he does n't cloud his brain . |
| 22 | Some people I mean , Elsie loves cleaning things so she 's spends all her time waxing things cos has to be cleaned very carefully . |
| 23 | ‘ What good is half a house in the middle of Scotland to someone who spends all her time down in London ? ’ |
| 24 | Graham spends all winter on the slopes . |
| 25 | I 'm not the kind of person who spends all their free time glued to the telly . |
| 26 | Mr Wood works for the water board but he is so concerned about the badgers that he spends all his spare time helping and watching them . |
| 27 | This is because the government spends all of the tax revenues raised , whereas households would have withdrawn part of this sum in the form of savings and imports . |
| 28 | That 's where they spend , Belinda spends all her holidays down there . |
| 29 | He spends all his pocket money on padlocks , and for a birthday treat for him today the red carpet was laid out for him at the Chubb Lock Factory in Wolverhampton . |