Example sentences of "[pers pn] spent the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Keraing , however , had put the wheels in motion , and while Sinar Surya was being prepared for the sea , and the pirates were still arguing about where she might go , and with whom , Lorne and I spent the following weeks suppressing our impatience by exploring our surroundings . |
| 2 | However I spent the following summer at the University of California , Santa Barbara . |
| 3 | As I failed to do this I spent the entire journey staring intently at the zip of my coat and at least I learned a lot about clothes fastenings that morning . |
| 4 | I spent the first eighteen months working in all the factory departments , so I started with a good knowledge of precisely how the product was made and did all the jobs that then existed in the production of confectionery . |
| 5 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 6 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 7 | ‘ I spent the first nineteen years of my life in England . |
| 8 | Cos I spent , I spent the first week of the holiday mainly with Shelley . |
| 9 | I spent the greater part of my first twenty-one years , sleeping in the first floor back , a room somewhat smaller than my mother and father 's . |
| 10 | So I spent the 4 weeks living in a style to which I was not accustomed , but found no difficulty in adopting ! |
| 11 | ‘ That 's how I spent the best years of my life , ’ she often said to her son . |
| 12 | I spent the brief stop at the small town of Kenora hanging out of the open doorway past George 's office , watching him , on the station side of the train , walk a good way up and down outside while he checked that all looked well . |
| 13 | Like many other pre-pubescent boys of the time , I spent the larger part of the Seventies with my shorts round my ankles , making magician 's hands ( raised above the shoulders , fingers splayed ) and shouting the incantation at a hairless and not especially elephantine willy . |
| 14 | That night I spent the ten dollars Papa had given me . |
| 15 | After counting the remaining rupees carefully , I spent the last free day in the company of a couple of young Seychellois who were going to an offshore reef to lift their fish-traps . |
| 16 | I spent the next few days talking to Cabinet colleagues — all of whom shared my view that the demand was preposterous — and then went to see the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | I never even learned the name of the man I spent the next two days with . |
| 18 | CONSCIOUS of being lesbian at the age of eleven , I spent the next seventeen years repressing my true self , taking much spontaneity from my character . |
| 19 | I spent the next four and a half months in Kuwait and Iraq as part of Saddam Hussein 's human shield , with nothing except my hand luggage and the clothes ( and shoes ) that I was wearing when the flight left London . |
| 20 | Martyn and I spent the next 10 days camping on the largest of the islands , sharing it with 30 pairs of geese . |
| 21 | At this time I was on holiday and I spent the next three days redecorating my sitting room ( a boring task , but necessary ) while waiting for the G4 to harden . |
| 22 | This advice I took seriously ; and Myra and I spent the next ten years mostly in Britain . |
| 23 | I know this to my cost as I spent the next few days discovering which Stain Devil cleaning stick was needed to remove most of my portion from Sunil 's white bathroom carpet . |
| 24 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 25 | I spent the whole time trying to explain the family connection . ’ |
| 26 | I spent the whole summer in the sun , often in the sea or swimming pools . |
| 27 | I spent the whole holiday writing this essay and I won the prize because nobody else entered for it . |
| 28 | At the beginning , I spent the whole summer reading everything du Maurier had written . |
| 29 | She spent the first three months of 1814 in bed . |
| 30 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |