Example sentences of "[vb mod] like to spend a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q : We should like to spend a holiday touring Scotland but , as neither of us drives , we are thinking of joining a coach tour . |
| 2 | She had hated the pity she thought that she saw in her mama and papa 's eyes , and when her papa had suggested that she might like to spend a year in London with her Uncle Orrin , be presented at court , meet his old friend the Prince of Wales , now King Edward VII , again , she had agreed with alacrity — she , who had hated being parted from her mama and papa . |
| 3 | There 's an igneous intrusion there , with fragments of garnet peridotite — that 's a rock from below the earth 's crust — and I 'd like to spend a bit of time there , though the rocks at the north-west end look pretty difficult to get at . |
| 4 | You 'd like to spend a bit more time doing things and not do so much in one go ? |
| 5 | ‘ Like Frances , who has a family , I 'd like to spend a bit more time at home , ’ he said , ‘ for I have a lot of material on tape and you ca n't write songs when you 're on the road . |
| 6 | I 'd like to spend a couple of winters in sports PR and marketing , while my name is still on people 's minds before I retire . |
| 7 | A young reader would perhaps define an attractive author as one with whom he or she would like to spend a day . |