Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] spend [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the days meandered into each other she found herself spending all her free time painting , even though she had known almost from the start that painting him was not going to exorcise him . |
| 2 | The 1970s rolled by and increasingly I found myself spending most of my time in Scottish waters with Venturous , based either at Aberdeen or Leith . |
| 3 | The main engines of growth were capital spending ( under the June Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) agreement [ see below ; p. 36892 ] the Japanese government committed itself to spend 430,000,000 million yen ( US$3,200,000 million ) on public works over the next 10 years ) and domestic consumption ( domestic demand rose by almost 6 per cent during the year ) . |
| 4 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |
| 5 | The family moved to London in 1897 , and Rosenberg was educated at the Baker Street Board School in Stepney , where his natural gift for both drawing and writing so impressed the headmaster that he allowed him to spend most of his time on them . |
| 6 | The hospital confirmed he spent 40 minutes having his injuries examined . |
| 7 | I also heard He spent some time in charge of North East Counties side Tadcaster Albion but did n't last long . |
| 8 | She made herself spend less time with Carolyn , monitoring her own contact with her . |
| 9 | My interest in China-Canada relations prompted me to spend several spare hours each week helping his staff re-write news and information despatches from Nanking , the current capital of China . |
| 10 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 11 | No less important to Reagan 's political future was the other part of his contract with General Electric which required him to spend 16 weeks a year touring GE plants around the country . |
| 12 | It led him to spend endless hours in the House of Commons , far more than any Prime Minister for many years before , far more than any of his successors . |
| 13 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 14 | In 1990 Chevallier won a Northern Arts travel award which enabled her to spend six weeks in New York . |
| 15 | Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother 's father up to the age of six , living in a cottage by Denbigh castle ; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse . |
| 16 | Only in the evenings did I spend some time with Mr Rochester , and I was careful not to allow him to hold me in his arms or kiss me . |
| 17 | It is a Did you spend much time on that ? |
| 18 | ‘ Did you spend much time there ? ’ |
| 19 | What did we spend last year ? |
| 20 | He died in his studio ; did he spend much time there ? ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Cass , of Wakefield , said she spent half her £92 weekly pension on food for the dogs , and had run up a huge gas bill to heat their individual home-made hutches . |
| 22 | She had herself spent several weeks alone in her cottage when she had just bought it and when she returned to mix with people she had found that her vocabulary had deserted her , that without stimulation she had completely lost the art of conversation , had been able only to mutter inanities in monosyllabic form . |