Example sentences of "i spend a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a good while asking for something written down so that I could see what I was and was n't supposed to do , but that was a forlorn hope . |
| 2 | In 1967 I was awarded the Rome scholarship and I spent a marvellous year at the British School in Rome . |
| 3 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 4 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 5 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 6 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 7 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 8 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 9 | I spent a great deal of time and study on it , over half a year , before I was ready to conduct it . |
| 10 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 11 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 12 | I spent a crowded lonely day . |
| 13 | And that 's one reason why I spent a middle-sized fortune in the most advanced form in Intelloid in the universe . |
| 14 | I spent a blissful evening , lost |
| 15 | I spent a perplexing evening in a Georgia bar some years ago endeavouring to persuade a local that I could NOT have driven from London . |
| 16 | In the end I retreated to the sofa , where I spent a cold , uncomfortable and furiously sleepless night . |
| 17 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 18 | And in fact at the greenbelt plan inquiry er er I I spent a considerable amount of time arguing on the issue of prestige sites and the availability of prestige sites within the greater York area already planned and available . |
| 19 | I spent a wonderful afternoon with some women pensioners in Barnsley . |
| 20 | In warm afternoon sunshine I spent a pleasing hour wandering the narrow Gassen ( lanes ) round the Münsterplatz . |
| 21 | During the lay up of Venturous I spent a brief interlude in the Solent area evaluating the performance and suitability of a thirty two foot fast motor cruiser Gazelle which had been purchased by the Department as an experiment . |
| 22 | One day I spent a whole morning preparing snails . |
| 23 | ‘ I would have thought so too , but last night I spent a whole dinner sitting between two girls who talked about nothing but horses . |
| 24 | In July 1972 I spent a whole afternoon discussing teaching and children with the headmaster of what corresponded roughly to a middle school . |
| 25 | I spent a restless night at a hotel , worrying about the reasons for Wemmick 's warning . |
| 26 | He and I spent a happy weekend visiting London together . |
| 27 | I spent a happy time in Mavhinje . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
| 29 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 30 | I spent a romantic holiday on the island some 30 years ago in a mountain village with a non-sailing companion and found myself pining in the summer heat for that azure water in the little harbour below . |