Example sentences of "[pers pn] spend a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a good while asking for something written down so that I could see what I was and was n't supposed to do , but that was a forlorn hope . |
| 2 | ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea … |
| 3 | If I spend a good while looking at it and I ca n't find anything different can we , maybe we start doing some ringing ? |
| 4 | This was not quite so convenient for her , and she spent a good deal of time travelling back and forth in her carriage . |
| 5 | She spent a good deal on the house ; well , it was his house , she kept it up for him , even afterwards . |
| 6 | She spent a good deal — she always did that . |
| 7 | She spent a good deal of time in the kitchen and bullied Dora into showing her how to make bread and pastry ; she would take cookery books up to her room and study the methods of jam making and preserving fruit and vegetables . |
| 8 | Both the local people and the expatriate community had been happy to befriend the pretty blonde newcomer and her infant son , with the result that whenever Ashley came down to the village she spent a good proportion of her time chatting . |
| 9 | As a fellow Australian and all-round boozer , Flynn took a tremendous liking to Finch , and , not surprisingly , they spent a good deal of time drinking together . |
| 10 | They spend a good quarter of an hour whistling for it , and then give up . |
| 11 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 12 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 13 | Although he spent a good part of each year in England , he ruled in the personal manner of his father and great-uncle . |
| 14 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 15 | So many people have an interest in this topic and would therefore expect us to spend a good amount of time on it . |
| 16 | The pursuit of happiness through developing rewarding emotional ties with other people is something most of us spend a good deal of our lives attempting . |