Example sentences of "[vb past] spend the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |