Example sentences of "[verb] spend the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 2 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |
| 3 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 4 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 5 | In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair . |
| 6 | You do n't want to spend the first morning of your honeymoon trying to re-do it yourself , so it is probably as well to stick to something simple . |
| 7 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 8 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 9 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 10 | We 've spent the first month in our new house with an assortment of builders , damp-proofers , wood-wormers , plasterers , plumbers and painters . |
| 11 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |