Example sentences of "i spent a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a good while asking for something written down so that I could see what I was and was n't supposed to do , but that was a forlorn hope . |
| 2 | In 1967 I was awarded the Rome scholarship and I spent a marvellous year at the British School in Rome . |
| 3 | I spent a little time ‘ fishing ’ these to the back and either tying off , or sewing in . |
| 4 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 5 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 6 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 7 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 8 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 9 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 10 | I spent a great deal of time and study on it , over half a year , before I was ready to conduct it . |
| 11 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 12 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 13 | I spent a crowded lonely day . |
| 14 | I spent a hundred . |
| 15 | And that 's one reason why I spent a middle-sized fortune in the most advanced form in Intelloid in the universe . |
| 16 | I spent a blissful evening , lost |
| 17 | I spent a perplexing evening in a Georgia bar some years ago endeavouring to persuade a local that I could NOT have driven from London . |
| 18 | In the end I retreated to the sofa , where I spent a cold , uncomfortable and furiously sleepless night . |
| 19 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 20 | And in fact at the greenbelt plan inquiry er er I I spent a considerable amount of time arguing on the issue of prestige sites and the availability of prestige sites within the greater York area already planned and available . |
| 21 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 22 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 23 | Because the panic attacks had become a habit with her , I spent a few sessions with Eileen teaching her how to overcome them . |
| 24 | Shortly before moving to London , I spent a few days visiting ancient and mystical sites in Cornwall . |
| 25 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
| 26 | As a soldier stationed on the South Coast at the time of D- Day , I spent a few days in London where I attended the Proms . |
| 27 | So then I spent a few hours quietly relaxing , until finally Posi reached the rendezvous point , reduced speed and gave the ’ spacecraft sighted ’ warning . |
| 28 | I spent a few moments in thought . |
| 29 | I spent a few years on The Scotsman and then to Thomson House to join The Guardian soon after it dropped the ‘ Manchester ’ from its title and started printing in London . |
| 30 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |