Example sentences of "[pers pn] spent [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was slightly built , and although I hated team sports and games , I spent much time in the school gym doing circuit training and fitness programmes . |
| 2 | I spent much time in that area and I know that brighter things are on the horizon for Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 3 | ‘ I spent much time in the States when I was a girl . |
| 4 | I spent little time at home now , so I was unable to be a detailed witness to the Great Love in the same account-keeping way as before . |
| 5 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 6 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 7 | Throughout 1969 I spent some time each month visiting schools , and attending yet more meetings in Curzon Street . |
| 8 | When I first came , I spent some time with Sue , she 's the manager . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During the summer of 1971 , soon after the ‘ discovery ’ , for the second time , of my disability , I spent some time in hospital . |
| 11 | I spent some time with another elderly miner in Sunderland . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is a particularly painful spot to be kicked and I spent some time hopping round the byre and cursing in a fervent whisper . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I spent some time in Japan . |
| 19 | I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always . |
| 20 | She spent much time in Geneva , working on behalf of the women 's disarmament committee , which was preparing a petition for disarmament prior to the Geneva disarmament conference of 1932 . |
| 21 | Because she spent endless time and money searching for her father , for the man on her birth certificate who did n't exist ! |
| 22 | Afterwards she spent more time than usual on her appearance , determined that from now on she would stop behaving like some Victorian miss with the vapours . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She spent some time choosing what to wear to say goodbye . |
| 25 | She spent some time at Fettes College in Edinburgh , but most of her schooling was in England . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps if you spent less time lurking behind doors ? ’ |
| 27 | You eventually managed to get a flight to Milan , where you stayed in hiding , and then you spent some time near Lake Como ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The total number , though far higher than in earlier studies , is not so significant ; after all , we spent more time tracking in deep water than all previous studies put together . |