Example sentences of "and spent [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They shone at university , translating Proust and challenging Hegel ; they worked summers in newspapers and spent junior year at archaeological digs in the Dordogne .
2 I went yesterday , to tell everybody about access requirements and spent all day
3 I worked on the course green-keeping in the winter at Birkdale , and spent all summer caddying .
4 He will have learnt from Iacocca , pursued excellence , been up the organization and spent one minute as a manager .
5 Charles himself escaped , passing through the outskirts of Kidderminster , and spent that night hiding in an oak tree in Boscobel on the border of Shropshire and Staffordshire .
6 He was up and dressed every day , and spent each evening in the corner of the public bar with a pint pot in front of him , keeping a benevolent eye on the satisfied customers .
7 Its owner , Antonio Greppi , had social aspirations and spent much time and more money creating a fine façade and rooms so luxurious , and so dedicated to rich parties , that the city nobles came in droves .
8 He bought a white 1964 Rover 2.6 Litre and spent much time speeding between Morrissey 's Kensington pad Manchester .
9 He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off .
10 He continued his serious studies , and spent much time visiting the sick as usual .
11 He excused himself from diplomatic assignments on the grounds of ( often genuine ) ill health and the poverty of his bishopric , and spent much time improving episcopal residences , especially at Halling and Trottiscliffe .
12 As well as dedication to movement , Beryl had great concern for people and spent much time helping with problems large or small .
13 William MacGillivray was born in Old Aberdeen , but went to Harris at the age of three and spent eight childhood years there .
14 But , having said that , as I got older and spent more time with my father I began to learn more about him .
15 He did not feed this to the eagles but sat and ate it himself , and spent more time staring into the deserted depths of Minch 's cage than any other .
16 The local doc — the guy who 'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier — was on holiday at the time and there was a locum , a deputising doctor in charge of the practice , except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he 'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday , too , and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope .
17 In maths and language they were less distracted and spent more time on work and routine activities , although in art the pattern was reversed : older children were more often distracted and did less work .
18 In classrooms where there were two adults , children were generally less distracted and spent more time working than in classrooms where there was only one .
19 In this scenario , the Diet took a subordinate role only until the socialist and communist parties accepted the system of liberal democracy and spent less time arguing for an alternative .
20 I was more interested in the kittiwakes nesting on the window ledges , and spent some time photographing them .
21 Having suffered a breakdown , she gave up her job in 1907 and spent some time in Sussex .
22 During his first period in Spain he fell seriously and mysteriously ill , and spent some time in hospital .
23 In 1918 he was shot in the knee while on a bombing raid and spent some time in hospital before being awarded an army scholarship , which enabled him to complete his studies at the City and Guilds College , London .
24 No later Turkish author really deals with the problem except Ismail Belig , who , in his article on Molla Yegan , states that the latter succeeded Molla Fenari as muderris at the Manastir medrese in 771/1369–70 and as kadi of Bursa in 822/1419 when Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage and spent some time in Egypt on his return .
25 When he left the house , he went down to the riverside , and spent some time considering the extent of the job they were about to tackle , the resources they were going to need , and the best way of setting about it .
26 And spent some time in an institution ? ’
27 The doctor came within the half-hour , and spent some time with Rebecca before deciding that an ambulance was needed to take her to the Marshes .
28 They carried out a survey monitoring our telephone techniques and spent some time listening to how we answered our phones .
29 She went upstairs and spent some time soaking in a hot bath .
30 On Monday morning he registered the death and spent some time with Shrimpton — the lawyer — his father 's accountant , and the bank manager .
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