Example sentences of "[pers pn] have to spend a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 2 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 3 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 4 | I was ready to fulfil the condition of my having the operation : I had to spend a year ‘ passing ’ as a male in stereotypical working-class jobs . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 6 | I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking . |
| 7 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 8 | My position as warden means that I have to spend a fair amount of time in the office , dealing with correspondence and the large amount of information that our fieldwork generates . |
| 9 | In fact , I have to spend a lot of my time asking silly questions of people while standing in all sorts of silly places . |
| 10 | As I say , Well you 've you 've to spend a lot of time . |
| 11 | successful showcases can create substantial industry interest in a band , but if you are going to pull out all the stops , you have to spend a lot of money with no guarantee of a positive result . |
| 12 | There is a myth that ribbon cables are difficult to make and you have to spend a fortune on getting cables specially made . |
| 13 | This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads . |
| 14 | It was only in the beginning , when we needed money badly , when we had to spend a lot on the house . ’ |
| 15 | We had to spend a night off the approaches to the West Solent and Poole as a result of information about local fishing boats coopering . |
| 16 | we had to spend a couple of years erm longer at school . |
| 17 | We have to spend a lot of time learning the limitations of the amplifier versus the guitar we 're using , and the microphones and console … ’ |
| 18 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 19 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 20 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 21 | Moreover , there is an absence of facilities for obtaining cards for the meters , so that many people who have to use them have to spend a considerable amount of money on travelling to get hold of cards . |