Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] spending [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ And how have I been spending this summer ? |
| 2 | but I 'm not rushing this time , cos I 'm , if , I 'm putting , I 'm spending two and half thousand pounds on this , I 'm not wasting my money |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm spending less time at Rocamar and more time in London , ’ he informed her . |
| 4 | With the great republic of Russia as our gallant ally , I was spending many hours in the hotel cafeteria with Rhys where he extolled the virtues of the Russian peoples . |
| 5 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 6 | Although I was still barely into my teens when I was spending this time with Maureen tending sick birds , I learned a lot about general care and identification — even if we failed to spot our Russian defector . |
| 7 | Although I was spending most of my time writing the book on Americans abroad , I see from my records of the late 1960s that I was also presenting several television programmes , both in London and in the north . |
| 8 | If you are spending less of your market 's total advertising money than you have market share , and a major competitor is spending significantly more , it is highly probable that you will fail to gain sales . |
| 9 | So should you discover that you are spending more time in Safeways than on the north-bound carriageway of the A9 , it 's time to tackle the South Glen Shiel Ridge . |
| 10 | you see his expenditure was er , he , he , he , just to put it down to a very minor thing , you 're spending four pound a week |
| 11 | I mean , that 's alright , but when you think you 're spending two pound ten pence and then , if you come out and you want a drink |
| 12 | Sixty pence on sweets okay and say say what you 're spending that on , on sweets okay . |
| 13 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 14 | Keith takes this further : ‘ We were a little limited when we were recording the guitars , limited by the size of the room and the fact that some of the gear was n't working properly , so obstructive forces were at work and this is where compromise comes in ; you 're spending all this time when you know it could be a lot better . ’ |
| 15 | Because you 're spending all day together , and we 'll keep breaking you off into , in twos , into your groups so that you can learn any more about one another . |
| 16 | you 've got one ninety pence here and you 're spending ninety pence of it on one thing and sixty pence of the same money on another thing . |
| 17 | She is spending two days isolated from the world . ’ |
| 18 | er which goodness erm , we believe that we are spending substantial sums of money in areas of traffic calming town and parks and and various other areas that have er been er touched upon er we do not think it would be prudent |
| 19 | I have sought to demonstrate that the claim of the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) is fatuous , because we are spending much more money on sport than in the past . |
| 20 | Such comments come a bit rich from the Opposition , when they have opposed each and every training initiative that we have introduced during the past 12 years and when we are spending two and a half times as much in real terms as the Labour Government did . |
| 21 | We are spending two and a half times as much , after taking account of inflation , as was spent by the last Labour Government on training . |
| 22 | I remind them that we are spending two and a half times as much on training and enterprise as they did . |
| 23 | My right hon. Friend must be wrong when he says that we are spending 4.3 per cent . |
| 24 | We are spending 67 per cent . |
| 25 | Today in Britain 's N H S we are spending more and more on accountants and fi financial consultants and less and less on health care workers . |
| 26 | We 're spending five million , if you look , er , on services for people with learning disabilities . |
| 27 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 28 | If we 're spending much money , Bruce , it 'll be as big as this er , code before we get any . |
| 29 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 30 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |