Example sentences of "[pers pn] to spend [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want you to spend the rest of your life with me , here , in Denmark . ’ |
| 2 | I would like you to spend the day with me , please . |
| 3 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |
| 4 | Not to live in fascist Italy ( it was still all right for her to spend a month or two , with her British passport , with her mother and me and carry messages over the border for the underground ) . |
| 5 | That he was regretting his impulse in inviting her to spend the weekend with him was obvious . |
| 6 | The Glebe School pupil is very fond of dogs and PC John Baines , who is involved with the ward 's Dreams Come True charity , arranged for her to spend the day with members of the police dog section . |
| 7 | Brian had simply made some lighthearted quip about Hindley having possibly asked her to spend the evening with him . |
| 8 | In 1987 the new vice-president won a travel award from the US Department of Agriculture to the USA which enabled him to spend a month studying cereal production , the uses of cereals and the way in which arable farming is supported . |
| 9 | Greta Burkill did not confine herself to looking after his education , but fought for him to spend a summer with his parents in Venezuela — a country not keen to grant visitors ' visas to Jews at that time . |
| 10 | There are too many demands on a field officer 's time , and discharges are too numerous and too scattered for him to spend the day surveying dischargers in the hope of observing pollution actually occurring . |
| 11 | His tinnitus did not , as we had been led to believe , oblige him to spend the concert inside a perspex box ; he leapt across the stage , knees at 90-degree angles , for much of its three hour span . |
| 12 | If anyone had asked him , Peter would have said that the Mollands had invited him to spend the summer with them at Abbotsfield simply for the pleasure of his company . |
| 13 | Now it 's arranged for them to spend a year living with families over here . |
| 14 | In those days I lived with my parents and when the film resurfaced at a local cinema I convinced them to spend an evening feasting their eyes on those sanguinary sapphics . |
| 15 | Just about a year ago Cicely and Dick Harris made their third trip to Malta ; this time to find a flat for rent on a permanent basis , enabling them to spend the Winter months there each year . |
| 16 | Depositors are issued with cheque books which enable them to spend the money directly without first having to go to the bank and draw the money out in cash . |
| 17 | Make them work — if you do n't want them to spend the day , and your money , sitting with their feet up . ’ |
| 18 | I had visited Paris once or twice , but now I was fortunate enough to secure a grant from the LCC — £15 , but princely for those days — which permitted me to spend a week or two there for the purpose of study , my subject being modern French philosophy . |
| 19 | Well , this morning , er , you know all know Colin , there 's er no need for me to spend a lot of time introducing him to you . |
| 20 | After a good day 's fishing he persuaded me to spend the night at Fullcircle . |
| 21 | It would simply be asking for trouble for me to spend the night here . ’ |
| 22 | Given our record , I 'd imagined that it would be impossible for us to spend a night under the same roof without spending it together . |
| 23 | I shall be busy for the next couple of weeks , ’ Vitor continued , gravely making plans , ‘ but then I 'd like us to spend the weekend with my mother so that she can meet her grandson . ’ |
| 24 | I could have thought of a marginally more interesting way for us to spend the evening together , but it would have been harder to review . |