Example sentences of "be spend [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , whether you 're spending a stylish weekend in Madrid or two energetic weeks on the Costa del Sol , do n't let the side down ! |
| 2 | ‘ Darling , you 're spending a bloody fortune over this one . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 4 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 5 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 6 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 7 | ’ Well John Major says I 'm a bit of a bastard , and I 've been spending the first part of this conference checking my birth certificate ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a shocking situation , and I am spending every single minute of every single day and every last dollar of my father 's money to correct this evil . ’ |
| 9 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 10 | They should make certain that the authorities are spending a suitable amount on adult education , and that it is available locally as well as centrally . |
| 11 | In Leicestershire , the police are spending a great deal of their valuable time assisting neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 12 | We should be spending a great deal of our time making children into heroes , identifying good work , putting good examples of work on display and bringing it to the attention of others . |
| 13 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 14 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 15 | An imaginative PRO or press officer will be thinking up new and useful angles for in-depth feature material suitable for specific programmes or publications and will be spending a good proportion of his or her time selling them . |
| 16 | but if , if you are going to be spending a whole lot of money on tents and if these were any good |
| 17 | The city itself , undaunted by the loss of £3m of public and private cash on its failed bid for the 1996 Games , will be spending a further hefty , though unspecified , sum . |
| 18 | They were , therefore , more likely to have a regular partner , to have less contact with former friends , and to be spending the greatest proportion of their time fulfilling a traditional domestic role . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's either that or I 'll be spending the next million years in a coal measure . |
| 20 | will be spending the next few months at her home in Italy while she recovers from an attack of shingles . |
| 21 | Now I 'm spending a small fortune on wine now . |
| 22 | ‘ Some swine stole her and ran her on to a coral reef , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm spending the next two months mending her . ’ |
| 23 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 24 | Edward and Arthur Hardy were spending a short farm holiday at Horsmonden , a 2½ hour train journey away from Margate . |
| 25 | Enjoying their European success , Laura and Bernard were spending an increasing amount of time in France , which they had always loved . |
| 26 | ‘ Here we are to spend a merry right , are we not , Thomas ? ’ shouted Gwendolen in a high penetrating voice , to the intense interest of those not quite so well acquainted with Dickens 's letters . |
| 27 | Eyes sparkling , Vicky told me : ‘ Laurence and I are to spend the whole day together . ’ |
| 28 | But the training of surgeons and operating teams for keyhole surgery is n't keeping up with demand so Trent Health Authority is spending a hundred and fifty thousand pounds on a training centre at Leicester General . |
| 29 | It could not possibly be , could it , that the man responsible for taking on the loan , the then chairman of Keyser Ullman , Mr Edward du Cann MP , is spending the parliamentary recess leading a debt-collecting bandit gang in Sardinia ? " |
| 30 | But friends of Countess Spencer say she has told them she is spending the festive season at Mougins in France with her great friend Jacqueline de Ribes . |