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Example sentences of "i [verb] spend [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In fact , I intend to spend the night there . ’
2	I felt such a strong love for them that I planned to spend the rest of my life among them , and to try to become more like them .
3	My Dad 's away on business again tomorrow and I want to spend a bit of time with him before he goes .
4	What I want to spend a few minutes on again this is something we 'll test tomorrow , right so I 'm giving you , training 's all about doing what do you think ?
5	‘ I want to spend the rest of my days with you . ’
6	‘ I just hope surgery is put off until after Christmas because I want to spend the holiday with my children .
7	‘ I want to spend the rest of the day making love to you , ’ he murmured , biting her ear , ‘ I want to touch every part of your body . ’
8	‘ I want to spend the rest of my life making you happy . ’
9	My favourite cousin is in remission , a transplant is now possible , my favourite girl has found her natural mother — and I have found the girl I want to spend the rest of my life with . ’
10	No , we 'll see I do n't know if I want to spend the money this year
11	Everybody in the audience expects to hear a certian solo in each song , and so would I if I 'd spent a small fortune on a ticket . ’
12	So I 'd spent the intervening three years elsewhere , writing for a fun pop paper and then polishing turds in the press office of a hateful record company .
13	I 'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him .
14	But he went on to say he knew I 'd spent the night at your place .
15	After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’
16	‘ I hope to spend the rest of my life convincing you , every day , how very much I love you , ’ he said thickly , gazing down into her lovely face .
17	I recall spending the entire Christmas of 1974 experimenting with various methods of enlarging my equipment .
18	I hope that the hon. Gentleman and I manage to spend a little time in Lancashire together , and that he will come to Bath .
19	When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew .
20	I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right .
21	On the way to Ruritania I decided to spend a night in Paris with a friend .
22	Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day .
23	I decided to spend the night at the forge , which pleased Joe very much .
24	I decided to spend the night in a village outside the town and go home early in the morning .
25	But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season !
26	‘ I adore Ingrid , but I do spend a lot of time making love to her in the Baron and a man needs a change .
27	It was made famous by the then Labour education chairman who said , and I quote , I am a spendthrift , I love to spend the rate payers ' money .
28	I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns .
29	I bought exactly what I wanted and I did spend a lot of money , but I enjoyed doing it and had fun .
30	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 .