Example sentences of "[verb] spend [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | He lost his hair through chemotherapy treatment and has spent the time since recovering from the disease , which spread to his lungs . |
2 | After all , the government itself has felt it necessary to set up an agency simply to find fathers who want to spend no time at all with their families . |
3 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
4 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
5 | If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible . |
6 | Some will come directly from school , some will have spent a time in business and will be wishing to improve their qualifications . |
7 | He considered , now , that he should have spent the time he had wasted on all that fiction in working on his great book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge instead . |
8 | Her agent had all but ordered her in front of a firing squad when she had broken the news to him — it was fortunate that she had already pencilled a six-month-long break into her diary , intending to spend the time writing new material . |
9 | But more people today can have a taste of travel and experience its intrinsic glamour than was possible fifty years ago , when only the well-off and aristocrats could afford to spend the time and money going abroad . |
10 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
11 | Or that girl with the Esquimau nose ? ) and not daring to spend the time she used to in study lest she be dangerously good , she now had hours and hours in which to brood and her old pains came back to life . |
12 | While I do not regret spending the time with my children in their early years , I feel that the medical world is not the place for people trying to combine a family and career . ’ |
13 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
14 | Though he 'd spoken with Klein daily there was no sign of a commission yet , so he had spent the time re-educating himself . |
15 | She had spent the time since her arrival making calm arrangements for the transfer of her father 's body to their Buckinghamshire home after the inquest tomorrow , and was now apparently set on clearing up this murder before she left . |
16 | She was due for a snack at three , followed by another blood-sugar reading , and Belinda had planned to spend the time until then reading up on some aspects of prenatal care that she felt hazy on . |
17 | How many of us have spent the time to get to know that person imprisoned in the vagrant ? |
18 | ‘ We have spent the time very quietly getting to know each other again , and in John 's case , picking up with friends and family . |