Example sentences of "spend [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move to Midshire even made economic sense ; she had several modest school recitals in Birmingham and the Black Country during the next month , and it would be cheaper to move up there and find a furnished room somewhere , rather than spend the intervening time here in town . |
| 2 | Leather corals , unlike some coelenterates , do not spend the entire time fully expanded . |
| 3 | They 'd probably spend the entire time at one another 's throats ! |
| 4 | Me , too , come to that — if you do n't come , he 'll spend the whole time fretting about the book . ’ |
| 5 | Do not spend the whole time talking about yourself , your job and your life . |
| 6 | It has also been a tenet of good security that prisoners should spend the maximum time outside their cells being kept busy working . |
| 7 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 8 | Erm I do n't think we can spend a long time considering them , it 's just if people bear me whisking through them our brains . |
| 9 | Today , several men would spend a considerable time erecting steel scaffolding before such a job would be attempted . |
| 10 | Accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh , she will spend a short time in the town on Wednesday , 30 June . |
| 11 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 12 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 13 | Louise came again , towing Suzanne , who spent the entire time shuttered off within the earphones of her Walkman ; if spoken to she smiled with bland and tolerant self-absorption , like the very old . |
| 14 | I spent the whole time trying to explain the family connection . ’ |
| 15 | Only had one sitting , spent the whole time fending the old bugger off . |
| 16 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 17 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 18 | Moran spent a long time composing the letter . |
| 19 | He spent a long time over these calculations and they appeared to soothe him . |
| 20 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 21 | He spent a long time with her , talking , and making her feel better when she was crying and that .. |
| 22 | The girls spent a long time putting their new wardrobe together . |
| 23 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 24 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 25 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 26 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 27 | One group spent a long time comparing the different notes or tones produced when tubes of different width and length were blown or spoken down . |
| 28 | Toby ( 4.5 ) had been playing with blocks , but then wandered away and the blocks were put away by two other boys , who spent a long time carefully fitting the different sizes of blocks into the two boxes . |
| 29 | The properly trained hypnotherapist has , like the successful doctor , lawyer or musician , spent a long time studying , practising and perfecting his craft . |
| 30 | Dad spent a long time talking to our Pastor afterwards . |