Example sentences of "[pers pn] spent [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made this very mistake of criticising the course during one of my medical placements , when I spent eight weeks on a busy medical unit . |
| 2 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 3 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 4 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 5 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 6 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
| 7 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 8 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 9 | ‘ I spent two years in a psikhushka , ’ he replied curtly . |
| 10 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 11 | ‘ You see , I spent two years in Russia , and I know a little about Siberian Magic . |
| 12 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 13 | I spent two years helping a friend catalogue her husband 's art collection which was hard because he was a very difficult person . |
| 14 | I spent two years in Washington trying to be a surgeon , but I could n't settle in the States . ’ |
| 15 | On my solo bike trip I spent two nights and a day in the Reykjahliđ3 campsite thunderbox after a visit here . |
| 16 | I spent two nights there one . |
| 17 | In the end , I spent two afternoons in a central gaol ( the highest category of prison , intended primarily for long-termers ) in a major town in the south of India . |
| 18 | All black it was , I spent two days cleaning it up . |
| 19 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 20 | Andrew and I spent many hours on the Windrush porch discussing almost everything under the sun from party politics to mystic transcendentalism . |
| 21 | I spent many hours working out patterns and ‘ staggering ’ rows so that they knitted correctly . |
| 22 | My colleagues and I spent many hours discussing this issue , when we first sat down to decide how we were going to approach the running of our company . |
| 23 | I spent many hours contemplating ( as we fishkeepers do ) the fact that I would like an extra pond to separate my goldfish from the Koi . |
| 24 | I spent many hours like this , in very enjoyable conversation . |
| 25 | Weeks passed , and I spent many hours studying Flint 's map and dreaming of treasure . |
| 26 | I told no one , not even Méli , about my visit to Conchis , but I spent many hours conjecturing about the mysterious third person in the house . |
| 27 | I spent many hours hidden in the bushes , silently watching one pair of bulbuls make their nest from beginning to end . |
| 28 | I spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug . |
| 29 | ‘ I spent many years driving in London , when I was stationed there . ’ |
| 30 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |