Example sentences of "i [verb] spend a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Dad 's away on business again tomorrow and I want to spend a bit of time with him before he goes . |
| 2 | What I want to spend a few minutes on again this is something we 'll test tomorrow , right so I 'm giving you , training 's all about doing what do you think ? |
| 3 | Everybody in the audience expects to hear a certian solo in each song , and so would I if I 'd spent a small fortune on a ticket . ’ |
| 4 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman and I manage to spend a little time in Lancashire together , and that he will come to Bath . |
| 5 | When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew . |
| 6 | On the way to Ruritania I decided to spend a night in Paris with a friend . |
| 7 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 8 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 9 | ‘ I adore Ingrid , but I do spend a lot of time making love to her in the Baron and a man needs a change . |
| 10 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 11 | I bought exactly what I wanted and I did spend a lot of money , but I enjoyed doing it and had fun . |
| 12 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 13 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 14 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 15 | I was ready to fulfil the condition of my having the operation : I had to spend a year ‘ passing ’ as a male in stereotypical working-class jobs . |
| 16 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 17 | I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking . |
| 18 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 19 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
| 20 | And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people . |
| 21 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 22 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
| 23 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 24 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
| 25 | I 've spent a lot of time and effort getting this far . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time in Paris , ’ explains Caine , ‘ and the result is I 'm now a committed Francophile . |
| 27 | I 've spent a lot of time on this . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 29 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 30 | I 've spent a year … polishing brass , chipping rust , and slapping paint on bulkheads , and so far as being a deck officer goes , I 'm just where I started . ’ |