Example sentences of "they spend [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two of them spent a while together , in a flat in Glasgow , but they did n't marry . |
| 2 | They spent every night together between the new and the full moon . |
| 3 | They spent a night being monitored by infra-red cameras and many hours submitting to psychotherapy . |
| 4 | They spent a year painting designs on the walls , finding new designer furniture to replace the old and making modest alterations like removing doors to create space and light . |
| 5 | Now they spent a year and the officers were allowed to bring their wives . |
| 6 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 7 | Some of these students became interested in teaching English to ethnic minority groups when , as part of the course , they spent a period of teaching practice in a school with an ESL Language Unit . |
| 8 | When Pamela 's parents were interviewed they spent a lot of time emphasizing how necessary they thought it was to discipline Pamela . |
| 9 | His parents lived on the Isle of Skye where they spent a lot of time observing the habits of the puffins on the beach . |
| 10 | In the next few weeks they spent a lot of time together . |
| 11 | Oh yeah , we 've got the analysis we 've got the questionnaires Okay what we 're gon na look at now is we gon na look at the work of Honey and Munnford and what Honey and Munnford spent a lot of time researching was people 's learning sides and they spent a lot of research and what they found out is that there are four different learning sides and we all learn in different ways . |
| 12 | Scotland was well endowed with its own gangsters in the '60s , but local sociology ensured that most of them never became famous , unless of course they spent a lifetime suffering in brutal prison cells and re-emerged as award-winning sculptors . |
| 13 | ‘ Once they had finished filming they spent a week clearing up and putting everything back perfectly . ’ |
| 14 | and erm Wickham Market had erm Machine Centre erm , that was used during the war for erm certain courses er particularly for erm tractor drivers , they used to er have a week 's course , they had to apply to the Education Committee and er we got these applications in and erm they spent a week at Wickham Market , then in they used to stay in lodgings if they came from great distances and erm they would learn about the maintenance of erm of tractors and er , I suppose it 's quite a good thing really because er , it was difficult to get any repairs done in those days |
| 15 | A very tired and dishevelled Schisgal appeared and they spent an hour discussing the problems with him . |
| 16 | They spent an hour descending one side of a large valley , only to take twice as long ascending the other side . |
| 17 | Bob Monkhouse , best known as a comedy writer and actor for television and radio , and playing his first straight acting role in the West End , as Buddy 's elder brother , Alan , spotted Crawford 's comedy potential and invited him to his home , where they spent an evening reading the play . |
| 18 | They spent the night sleeping on the ballroom floor . |
| 19 | ‘ They spent the night at an inn , if they 'd any sense . ’ |
| 20 | On 15 October hastening back from Berwick , the king , the earl of Kent , Hugh Despenser the younger , and the rest of the court arrived at Bridlington priory where they spent the night before retreating to Burstwick , in Holderness . |
| 21 | They spent the money on the British players . |
| 22 | Environmentalists paid it little heed : they spent the decade prior to 1983 worrying about issues such as the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act , the third London airport , motorways and nuclear power . |
| 23 | Most women were more cautious and conscious about how they spent the household 's money but about half were just ‘ living from week to week ’ , struggling to meet their financial commitments with every penny of the weekly budget accounted for . |
| 24 | On October 24,1980 when Diana drove from London to Ludlow to watch Prince Charles race his horse Allibar in the Clun Handicap for amateur riders they spent the weekend with the Parker-Bowles at Bolehyde Manor in Wiltshire . |
| 25 | They were con-men who work the black market and although they spent the whole of the next day in Irkutsk taking me to lunch , visiting a host of Siberian churches and museums and organising a trip to the opera , their interest was in valutta — hard currency — not culture . |
| 26 | They spent the whole round telling each other jokes . |
| 27 | After the Officer-in-Charge had inspected their cells they spent the rest of the day in the Association Room . |
| 28 | After the Carshalton accident in 1907 , the staff were evidently rather reluctant to use these cars on the Sutton route and they spent the rest of their working lives on the Croydon — Mitcham — Tooting section , which had no gradients . |
| 29 | They spent the rest of the afternoon in animated discussion — so animated that Folly had gently to point out to her employee that it was time to lock up . |
| 30 | They spent the rest of the morning checking over their equipment before being herded up a gangplank and on to the waiting troop carrier . |