Example sentences of "spend a penny " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , assuming the visitor was given a guided tour of the manor , he would then leave the kitchen and find the WC directly opposite the front door ; just a WC , no bath , no wash-hand basin , no toilet-paper , no mod-cons ; if he did wish to ‘ spend a penny ’ , well , yesterday 's newspaper was cut neatly into 6 inch squares and nailed on to a convenient wall . |
| 2 | THE hard-up Beeb has splashed out about £14,000 — so Anne Diamond can spend a penny in comfort . |
| 3 | 'E wo n't spend a penny on 'em . |
| 4 | Norris 's reputation as a man who got things done was dented when the Tories lost a vote on extra primary school places because Norris was away from his seat ( leading to the crack that he ‘ spent a penny and cost the ratepayers £250,000 ’ ) , but he left his mark on the place . |
| 5 | Norris 's reputation as a man who got things done was dented when the Tories lost a vote on extra primary school places because Norris was away from his seat ( leading to the crack that he ‘ spent a penny and cost the ratepayers £250,000 ’ ) , but he left his mark on the place . |
| 6 | There was one never-to-be-forgotten occasion when one of the girls , slightly the worse for wear , staggered in and , evidently in dire straits , spent a penny in the fire bucket which was kept brim full of water in the middle of the hut . |
| 7 | He spent a penny but he took the service all in |
| 8 | ‘ You are an angel , Daddy , ’ said Sheila , and she added dreamily , ‘ I expect Clytemnestra has spent a penny by now . ’ |
| 9 | She had not , however , yet ‘ spent a penny . ’ |
| 10 | Er the er the lady he was a widower and his , er his f er he was with a lady who was a widow and erm I know for a fact that she 'd not spent a penny , she had n't p you know for a you know , of the trip or , or he just would n't let her , I mean , I mean you , you 've got to have some money have n't you to keep |
| 11 | I 'm not saying you do , but I have n't spent a penny on myself ! |
| 12 | She claims she 's never spent a penny on advertising ever since . |
| 13 | Another of Mr. Talbot 's activities was the loaning of money at a fair old rate of interest but he did not believe in spending a penny to smarten his premises from which the paint was peeling so badly that bare wood was revealed . |
| 14 | A HOUSEWIFE saw her bathroom ruined — when a toilet roll exploded as she was spending a penny . |
| 15 | Weeks she 'd been badly , and he would n't hear of spending a penny on a doctor . |
| 16 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
| 17 | For example , a neighbour may ask ‘ what are you doing ? ’ and the elder can say ‘ I 've got to spend a penny , it 's these new tablets ’ , or ‘ I 'm going into town for some firelighters ’ . |
| 18 | In the other … you might just as well try to go to sleep when your feet are cold or you want to spend a penny , or you 're hungry for a special kind of food you have n't got . |
| 19 | Raising cash to spend a penny |
| 20 | Oh , younger men are more likely to use coarser tones and be more explicit erm although they would n't use those sort terms to their father or elder men , and the women are more likely to use euphemisms like Spend a penny , Powder your nose and things like that . |