Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] spend [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Laputans were kind to me , I did not want to spend a long time in their country . |
| 2 | But he too , it seemed , did not want to spend an evening with his brother-in-law , but said less about his reasons than the voluble Edward . |
| 3 | Or that girl with the Esquimau nose ? ) and not daring to spend the time she used to in study lest she be dangerously good , she now had hours and hours in which to brood and her old pains came back to life . |
| 4 | And you probably would not choose to spend a fortnight up the Amazon with either . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'm not going to spend a week on the route |
| 7 | Well , I 'm honestly not going to spend the whole of Saturday morning putting up with this sort of thing . |
| 8 | She was not going to spend the remainder watching others do the work . |
| 9 | This means that many of these people do not envisage spending the whole of their working life climbing the internal labour ladder of a single organisation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 13 | While I do not regret spending the time with my children in their early years , I feel that the medical world is not the place for people trying to combine a family and career . ’ |
| 14 | As I am not planning to spend a lot on the engine I need something I can perhaps restore myself . |
| 15 | Students of Russian and Celtic are not required to spend a year abroad . |
| 16 | The Student System II Developing Tank , from the Paterson Photax Group , is an entry level tank aimed at those who are starting out in darkroom work and who do n't want to spend a fortune on equipment . |
| 17 | The Student System II Developing Tank , from the Paterson Photax Group , is an entry level tank aimed at those who are starting out in darkroom work and do n't want to spend a fortune on equipment . |
| 18 | I really would like a holiday , but I do n't want to spend a lot of money , and then come home and find an atmosphere . |
| 19 | I do n't want to spend a fortnight on the road . |
| 20 | I did n't want to spend the rest of the afternoon cleaning foam from Wavebreaker 's decks . |
| 21 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 22 | I always remember him being asked why a chap with his responsibility spent his evenings with people like Jill St John and he replied , ‘ Well , if you spent the whole day with Indira Ghandi you do n't want to spend the night with Golda Meir … . ’ |
| 23 | Microsoft had i860s in its labs , but its engineers , whilst reportedly ‘ not un-impressed ’ with the part , ‘ did n't want to spend the next six years writing assembler code , ’ for the very complex processor , and shelved the port . |
| 24 | Perhaps Benny Katz did n't want to spend the rest of his life as a viklehnik a weekly-payment collector . |
| 25 | But he knew that he did n't want to spend the next few hours in his own company . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So what if he did n't want to spend the day cooped up with her in the bedroom , only emerging when hunger demanded that their stomachs be fed ? |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose when you spend all that money on a girl you do n't want to spend the evening wheezing into your hankie , do you ? |
| 29 | You do n't want to spend the first morning of your honeymoon trying to re-do it yourself , so it is probably as well to stick to something simple . |
| 30 | Even though you 've got funding for the first time for this I do n't want to spend an awful lot on materials . |