Example sentences of "[pers pn] spend some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in the evenings did I spend some time with Mr Rochester , and I was careful not to allow him to hold me in his arms or kiss me . |
| 2 | I spent some hours in a newspaper office getting nothing , not even any change , out of an understrapper who had learnt his English in Enfield , and wondering less and less intermittently what time the public parks shut . |
| 3 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 4 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 5 | Throughout 1969 I spent some time each month visiting schools , and attending yet more meetings in Curzon Street . |
| 6 | When I first came , I spent some time with Sue , she 's the manager . |
| 7 | I spent some time with him after he drove back into the pit-lane and he was very categorical about his decision : ‘ It is simply not worth it , ’ he said . |
| 8 | During the summer of 1971 , soon after the ‘ discovery ’ , for the second time , of my disability , I spent some time in hospital . |
| 9 | I spent some time with another elderly miner in Sunderland . |
| 10 | I spent some time every day looking after her , and the rest of the time with my cousins , listening to their plans for the future . |
| 11 | It is a particularly painful spot to be kicked and I spent some time hopping round the byre and cursing in a fervent whisper . |
| 12 | ‘ As I told you , I spent some time writing letters and when I 'd finished I thought it would be pleasant to get some fresh air so I went out and posted them — in the box outside the main post office — ’ |
| 13 | After finishing the course in June , I spent some time travelling within Eastern Europe and then spent two months in Austria to improve my German . |
| 14 | You may remember I spent some time in Paris — not the most pleasant of times freezing in the snow , chased by wolves and being half-hanged at Montfaucon . |
| 15 | I spent some time in discussion in Oman , not about the minesweepers but about the much more valuable corvette order that the Omanis are seeking to place , and I was given very satisfactory assurances by His Majesty the Sultan about those orders . |
| 16 | I spent some time in Japan . |
| 17 | I spend some time extracting the following day 's tasking for my platoon and allocate teams to each task . |
| 18 | Can you spend some time in Oxford tomorrow ? |
| 19 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 20 | She spent some time choosing what to wear to say goodbye . |
| 21 | She spent some time at Fettes College in Edinburgh , but most of her schooling was in England . |
| 22 | You eventually managed to get a flight to Milan , where you stayed in hiding , and then you spent some time near Lake Como ? |
| 23 | You spent some time describing how the linesiders were disappointed but nothing about the sterling work done by the loco department at Loughborough to put matters right and ensure a full days running on the Sunday . |
| 24 | mhm Well , David Brian , now you 're a doctor and a reverend and your the curate at Christ Church in Abingdon , but you spent some time over there in Saints Mary and John Church . |
| 25 | Use this knowledge of God 's care as you spend some moments praying through the issues you have isolated in the points above . |
| 26 | But when the tabloids come knocking on your front door , harassing your girlfriend , when you spend some time making headlines than music , when you 've developed a habit that 's hard to break when you 've pissed your best mates off to the max , something 's got to give , right ? |
| 27 | But they , they are a little bit inclined to what shall we spend some money on next , are n't they ? |
| 28 | Last year , we spent some £60 million helping refugees and displaced persons overseas . |
| 29 | That worried us as there were several great skuas working the sky above the bog , and we spent some time waiting for the goose to return before setting off again . |
| 30 | ‘ We spent some time in there when we were kids , did n't we Yant ? ’ |