Example sentences of "[vb infin] spend the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all of us like using woodworking machines , and do not mind spending the extra time achieving results which may be less perfect and mechanical-looking . |
| 2 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |
| 3 | Her husband would have spent the whole day cooking for the steady stream of customers in the small , steamy back kitchen below and she felt that he needed a break . |
| 4 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 5 | Well I could have spent the whole week . |
| 6 | Oh I could have spent the whole week , I just , I just , I could of spent five afternoons in Ipswich , would of done or Norwich |
| 7 | But we would n't be starting at that , at the point that you did because we did not , would not have spent the approaching five million that you spent in the first er , month or two of this council . |
| 8 | You wo n't have to spend the entire holiday peering into that steamy little porthole , watching the children 's vests revolving in the suds . |
| 9 | Mathews will have to spend the coming months negotiating revenues with companies which may cease to exist in October . |
| 10 | I had only six or seven miles to go to get to Winter Marsh , and I did n't want to spend the whole day there . |