Example sentences of "[vb past] spend the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 2 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 3 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 4 | He decided to spend the last hour at the local pub . |
| 5 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 6 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 7 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 8 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 9 | When , at last , some nasty little spots began to appear , and he had spent the last night of the year sitting up in bed and holding his pyjama jacket away from his afflictions , Joan put her foot down . |
| 10 | The recent spell of warm weather was holding and Julie Murchison was feeling good in spite of the fact that she had spent the last hour in her Mother 's sick room . |
| 11 | It was as if Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade — totally , with no mercy . |
| 12 | A woman told how she had spent the last fifteen years of her life ‘ allowing my husband to make choices for me ’ . |
| 13 | Duroc had spent the last three months in France , dealing with the business of the Violent Tendency for Freedom . |
| 14 | Hans and he had spent the last winter in Nice and it was the only place he wanted to avoid ; the memories were still too painful . |
| 15 | She had spent the last ten days in bed , suffering from shock , the after-reaction fierce , frightening . |
| 16 | A substitute had been required , therefore , in haste — and Daniel , who had never reached France or Italy after all but had spent the last two years at the London office of the Chartist Northern Star , had seemed as good a choice as any . |
| 17 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 18 | She had spent the last six months learning to help many such at St Sylvester 's . |
| 19 | Colette had spent the last fifteen years taming Bernard . |
| 20 | He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference , four days of gin and oratory . |
| 21 | Co-director Deborah Coles recounted how she had spent the last 3 days attending the inquest on a man known to be at risk , who committed suicide in prison . |
| 22 | Best had spent the last two weeks preaching that Bangor could score in Nicosia . |
| 23 | But there was no room there and the 22-year-old had spent the last six days in Middlesbrough police station . |
| 24 | He had had a distinguished war , being wounded once and decorated twice , and had spent the next five years recreating it in a series of patriotic British movies . |
| 25 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |
| 26 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 27 | They had booked a Toyota camper van and told the hire company they intended spending the next three weeks touring New Zealand . |