Example sentences of "[pers pn] to spend a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now it 's arranged for them to spend a year living with families over here . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |