Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to spend a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But social services are not a luxury : any complex industrial society must expect to spend a lot on social services . |
| 2 | Q : We should like to spend a holiday touring Scotland but , as neither of us drives , we are thinking of joining a coach tour . |
| 3 | Where one librarian may choose to spend several complete days in the school vacation creating a database , other librarians or teachers may choose to spend a few hours every week over one or two terms . |
| 4 | She had hated the pity she thought that she saw in her mama and papa 's eyes , and when her papa had suggested that she might like to spend a year in London with her Uncle Orrin , be presented at court , meet his old friend the Prince of Wales , now King Edward VII , again , she had agreed with alacrity — she , who had hated being parted from her mama and papa . |
| 5 | Before heading north , you might care to spend a day discovering the Oberaargau ( Upper Aargau ) . |
| 6 | I 'd like to spend a couple of winters in sports PR and marketing , while my name is still on people 's minds before I retire . |
| 7 | There 's an igneous intrusion there , with fragments of garnet peridotite — that 's a rock from below the earth 's crust — and I 'd like to spend a bit of time there , though the rocks at the north-west end look pretty difficult to get at . |
| 8 | You 'd like to spend a bit more time doing things and not do so much in one go ? |
| 9 | I 'd like to spend a little more time with her than that . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd like to spend a few minutes now trying to pull that together and then go onto how we evaluate these plans , because you 've all produced these and would n't you like to know how good they are and how bad they are ? |
| 11 | ‘ Like Frances , who has a family , I 'd like to spend a bit more time at home , ’ he said , ‘ for I have a lot of material on tape and you ca n't write songs when you 're on the road . |
| 12 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
| 13 | I may have to spend a lot of my time in Scotland now — perhaps even look for a Scottish constituency — and your work is in London . ’ |
| 14 | She was n't mean about it , she was very grateful to have someone to talk to and I used to try to spend a lot of time with her just to cheer her up — you know , walk the dog with her and go shopping — just do all the things that would help . |
| 15 | A young reader would perhaps define an attractive author as one with whom he or she would like to spend a day . |
| 16 | No no , they will never make a price in Perth now you have terrified them , ’ and Cameron would have to spend a good few shillings to make the drove move on . |
| 17 | She or he would have to spend a year in general practice to have the opportunity to acquire similar skills . |
| 18 | Now you 're one of a pair , it does n't mean that you have to do everything together , but the chances are that you will want to spend a lot of your spare time with each other . |
| 19 | The venture capitalist will need to spend a considerable amount of time with the management team before an offer is made to the vendor . |
| 20 | We will have to spend a lot initially to make the castle wind and watertight , ’ says Stewart , who drew the plans . |
| 21 | If not , you will have to spend a lot more time and effort using them than is necessary . |
| 22 | Every few weeks he will have to spend a weekend at home near a telephone on call to handle any emergencies which crop up in the area . |
| 23 | Most sufferers will have to spend a day or two in bed , and the feeling of malaise and depression with which the footballers are left will not necessarily be due to their team 's position in the league , but is an almost inevitable element of a severe bout of flu . |
| 24 | You will have to spend a lot of time preventing tricky scenarios from getting any worse or keeping antagonistic individuals apart . |
| 25 | Students can expect to spend a substantial part of their courses doing practical laboratory work . |
| 26 | Married couples in the 1980s can expect to spend a much greater part of the later part of their lives together without their children . |