Example sentences of "[pers pn] spent a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After visiting the Hayward Gallery I spent a half-hour just gazing along the river line , the historic buildings sharp in the clear , cold , sunny air . |
| 2 | Occasionally I spent a day in London , always returning at night to keep my mother company . |
| 3 | I spent a day with her family at Eastbourne — except that it was n't with her family , for I hardly met them . |
| 4 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 5 | So I went in there and I thought oh God , I mean I could , if you gave me , if I did a nice sketch and worked on it , if I spent a day a might |
| 6 | I 've got four CSEs and I spent a year on day release , learning about making wreaths and business management . |
| 7 | I spent a year and a half in a kibbutz then joined the English army for five years . |
| 8 | I spent a year living in Italy and I fell in love with the rustic feel and lifestyle . |
| 9 | I am a male of 49 years living on my own in rented accommodation , I spent a year on E.T . |
| 10 | I spent a year working in a hospital as an auxiliary nurse between college and university . |
| 11 | But I spent a year in that shadowland . |
| 12 | When I was nine , I spent a school year in Miss Onion 's class . |
| 13 | I spent a childhood afraid to fall ill , because being ill meant my mother had to stay off work , and lose money . |
| 14 | thinking , Oh if only I spent a bit more time |
| 15 | ‘ I spent a fortune on drink and drugs . |
| 16 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |
| 17 | I spent a night and a day and a second night in agony . |
| 18 | ‘ Having with difficulty crossed the range over an entire new country , and penetrated to the centre of the dense Eucalypti scrub alluded to , in which I spent a night and part of two days without water for my horses , I was compelled , much to my regret , to beat a hasty retreat back to the ranges , in the gullies of which I even found difficulty in obtaining water . |
| 19 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 20 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
| 21 | The huge Georgian house , set in acres of gorgeous countryside , used to be a sort of evangelical holiday retreat for young lads , and I spent a couple of winter weeks there . |
| 22 | I spent a couple of days rehearsing my speech in my head , and checking various ideas with Brian . |
| 23 | I spent a couple of hundred years on the bottom of a lake once . ’ |
| 24 | During that period , I spent a lot of time with Calvin Mark Lee , basically because he was Lou Reisner 's assistant , and he and I got on really well . |
| 25 | For a start , I spent a lot of time on my own , or with London friends . |
| 26 | I realised that many did drugs , so I spent a lot of time in the drug community before hand , so that once I hooked up with the women I could move back and forth . |
| 27 | ‘ I spent a lot of time attending to it , but I ran all the way , which is good enough , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Over a period of ten days I spent a lot of energy and seemed to come through with colours flying . |
| 29 | I spent a lot of time discovering and browsing through the bookshops , and then reading on the lawns which led down to the river Cam from the backs of the colleges . |
| 30 | The phrasing of Japanese , Indian and Chinese music really fascinated me , so I spent a lot of time studying what made that music work . |