Example sentences of "[pers pn] spend [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent the next few days talking to Cabinet colleagues — all of whom shared my view that the demand was preposterous — and then went to see the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | I never even learned the name of the man I spent the next two days with . |
| 3 | CONSCIOUS of being lesbian at the age of eleven , I spent the next seventeen years repressing my true self , taking much spontaneity from my character . |
| 4 | I spent the next four and a half months in Kuwait and Iraq as part of Saddam Hussein 's human shield , with nothing except my hand luggage and the clothes ( and shoes ) that I was wearing when the flight left London . |
| 5 | Martyn and I spent the next 10 days camping on the largest of the islands , sharing it with 30 pairs of geese . |
| 6 | At this time I was on holiday and I spent the next three days redecorating my sitting room ( a boring task , but necessary ) while waiting for the G4 to harden . |
| 7 | This advice I took seriously ; and Myra and I spent the next ten years mostly in Britain . |
| 8 | I know this to my cost as I spent the next few days discovering which Stain Devil cleaning stick was needed to remove most of my portion from Sunil 's white bathroom carpet . |
| 9 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 10 | ‘ The superintendent of this building appears to be a broken reed , and unless I spend the next twenty-four hours on the telephone it looks as though we are plumb out of luck , ’ he added , throwing the phone book down in disgust . |
| 11 | She spent the next 18 months putting a brave face on her illness , with lots of loving support from George . |
| 12 | She spent the next couple of hours staring into the darkness . |
| 13 | She spent the next hour wandering round , drawing towers , battlements , gateways , and sections of wall , gradually becoming absorbed again in what she was doing . |
| 14 | She spent the next hour jotting down notes as she processed each disk . |
| 15 | She spends the next ten years taking in washing , slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it . |
| 16 | Although this may be unwelcome , particularly if you are very fond of the place in which you live , the alternative may be that you spend the next few years in a state of anxiety and misery because of money worries . |
| 17 | Afterwards we flew back to Greg 's house and we spent the next week working real hard . |
| 18 | As our papers were in English and not German , we spent the next hour or so being rejected , first at Gate One and then at Gate Six . |
| 19 | We spent the next day lolling round Hampton Court . |
| 20 | At thirteen we were branded either jail-bait or ‘ Still , I expect she 's clever with her hands ’ — and we spend the next thirty years living up to it or living it down . |
| 21 | Amid chants of ‘ Get the beasts ’ and ‘ You 're going to die ’ , they spent the next several hours dragging their victims from their barricaded cells , humiliating them and beating them up . |
| 22 | Three days later Mrs Holt arrived in town , and they spent the next three days together before she left . |
| 23 | ‘ He would , ’ Miss Hatherby chuckled , and they spent the next half hour discussing him . |
| 24 | They spent the next few minutes getting themselves and the canoe off the water . |
| 25 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |
| 26 | They spend the next hour or so chatting before going in for lunch . |
| 27 | These will have hatched from spawn laid far offshore , in water as deep as two hundred metres and , having spent their larval stage swimming free in the ocean , they spend the next two , sometimes three years inshore where they form an important part of the food for many sea-birds and also for seals and otters . |
| 28 | Here they spend the next 5 months until the short rains in November when they gradually form columns and head back to the shortgrass plains . |
| 29 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 30 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |