Example sentences of "spend [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , students move on to the next unit as soon as they have mastered the previous one , rather than spend their extra time unnecessarily on application of material just learned . |
| 2 | THE Oval Office may be occupied by a self-confessed non-inhaler ; half the members of the cabinet may have marched against the Vietnam war ; and the first and second ladies may spend their spare time grooving to the Grateful Dead . |
| 3 | Though I spent my outdoor time playing any game I could , from cricket , tennis , football or boxing at the local gym , all my indoor time was spent buried in books . |
| 4 | In the early 1920s , while working as a bilingual secretary in Westminster , she spent her spare time training in the Thames to become a long-distance swimmer , accompanied by a hired oarsman in a boat . |
| 5 | Nevertheless she spent her spare time preparing for his possible return , practising singing the songs he used to like , tears rolling down her cheeks all the while . |
| 6 | Ms Streisand , in the same paper , claimed that the press would be happier if she spent her free time shopping , and pointed out , quite fairly , that she and the others at the correspondents ' dinner had been invited there . |
| 7 | These readers designed , and then spent their spare time building this fabulous bungalow , complete with swimming pool and a large garden pond . |
| 8 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 9 | He was indeed a carpenter , and spent his spare time carving small wooden toys for his children . |
| 10 | He never brought his friends to the house and she had never known where he spent his spare time . |
| 11 | Inspector of Ancient Monuments , will give an illustrated talk on the 18th-century British soldier at home and how he spent his spare time . |
| 12 | He spent his early time with the company in personnel and from 1976 moved into the textiles side of the business . |
| 13 | Then you reminded yourself that they were a bunch of gilded pederasts who spent what little time they could spare from betraying the country 's secrets in stealing the Security Service 's territory , influence and share of the Secret Funds . |
| 14 | She had kept her looks and her health , and had spent her free time productively with a variety of projects and committees . |
| 15 | She has spent her free time researching the book and is now looking for a publisher . |
| 16 | In many schools , teachers are spending their spare time fund-raising and making equipment to support the new Curriculum . |
| 17 | We need to ask ourselves how LEA advisers should be spending their increased time in schools , bearing in mind that due to the ratio of schools to inspectors , the time spent in any one school will still not be generous . |
| 18 | Mr Crowley has already spent his allotted time in Hartlepool where he was amazed to find hundreds of yachts moored in the marina . |
| 19 | Her partner 's passionate hobby was shooting , and she knew from their telephone calls that he had been spending his spare time at a sports club which had a range . |
| 20 | Feeling really invigorated I decided to spend my remaining time in the gym and let those machines really know that I meant business ! |
| 21 | We will both retire around May and I hope to spend my free time on my hobby , photography . ’ |
| 22 | Each had to rely on the support and goodwill of his partners to be able to spend their entire time on the case of the South Ronaldsay children . |
| 23 | In this group of 27 respondents , only two specifically noted that they were able to spend their full time on training , another two did not offer any estimate of time , and a further two indicated that their time plus their assistant 's time equalled one full-time post . |
| 24 | Training officers who noted that they were able to spend their full time on training were very rare , although it was noted in Chapter 4 that a training officer or more ‘ training officer time ’ was the most commonly wanted further ‘ resource ’ to expand or develop existing training programmes . |
| 25 | people who work together tend to spend their non-work time with persons from the same industry . |
| 26 | Clockwise from top left : Masha hopes modelling will bring her money ; queues form quickly after rumours of new supplies ; a farmer selling her produce ; Larissa ( left ) , spends her spare time in food queues ; career success for Natalya means she can pay someone to queue for her ; Svetlana is a fashion designer with no materials . |
| 27 | Beeneys wife is a football fanatic and spends her spare time studying old match videos . |
| 28 | Another friend of mine spends her whole time , since her retirement , experimenting with different recipes . |
| 29 | Beth Archer , a photography student , spends her free time photographing the natural world of Raintree Wood . |
| 30 | She did n't smoke and never drank , preferring to spend her free time reading , watching television , visiting friends or going out for supper in modest bistros . |