Example sentences of "he spend [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent 10 days in London , at the Group 's invitation . |
| 2 | He spent 5 months in the house , hiding from the Germans and fighting with the Resistance . |
| 3 | ‘ So , you see , I have very strong links with the fashion business — namely my grandfather and the sweat-shop where he spent thirty years of his life . |
| 4 | He spent 18 years working for Ford , ending up as manager of its Dearborn assembly plant . |
| 5 | He spent 4 years or so with QPR and starred in the FA Cup final in 1982 . |
| 6 | He spent six months running the Silo chain last year . |
| 7 | He was also offered the post of organist at Versailles , on condition that he spent six months of the year there , but , after some reflection , he turned it down , arousing Leopold 's anxieties once more . |
| 8 | He spent six months in America working in and visiting nurseries and botanical gardens — a trip made possible by the award of the first Bowles Memorial Scholarship by the RHS . |
| 9 | Between 1914 and 1918 he spent six months among the Mailu and then two years among the people of the Trobriand Islands , both in south-east New Guinea . |
| 10 | He spent six months in jail . |
| 11 | Bought up Catholic Irish in New South Wales , he spent six years in a seminary before concluding he did not want to be a priest . |
| 12 | He spent five minutes cleaning his nails with a nailbrush . |
| 13 | Wounded at Dunkirk he spent five years as a POW in Germany . |
| 14 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 15 | He spent five years in the top job , a hectic period which embraced not only the collapse of communism in eastern Europe , but , at the very end , the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War . |
| 16 | He spent five years in a prison camp next to a camp where Ukrainian women were held , and he and one of the captives , Maria , fell in love over the barbed wire . |
| 17 | Christopher , of Bognor Regis , Sussex , was rushed to hospital , where he spent five days recovering from his ordeal . |
| 18 | He has served for 30 years as the local church warden and he spent 42 years as treasurer of the local branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 19 | He spent four hours with the therapist who administered it to him and supervised his acid trip , and he remained under a structured hallucinatory influence for a further five hours at home . |
| 20 | For two weeks after the spine operation , Michael was again on a bed that could be turned , so that his spine was completely immobilised , and he spent four hours on his back and two on his front . |
| 21 | This week he spent four days working on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 22 | Between the announcement on 26 August of a government ban on L'Humanite and Ce Soir , and the annoucement of his own resignation on 25 September , he spent four weeks wrestling with his conscience and attempting to understand the full implications of what had happened . |
| 23 | After his retirement as secretary of the English Association in 1950 he spent four years in India , encouraging the growth of youth hostels in that country , and subsequently paid two extended visits to Africa for the same purpose . |
| 24 | He spent four years at a Liverpool shipping house and then in 1861 obtained a clerical post at Hutchinson 's alkali works in Widnes . |
| 25 | A committed member of the circle of reformers which centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , he spent four years in the second half of the 1850s investigating the financial procedures of various west European countries and the United States . |
| 26 | While there , he spent two hours outlining the new Japanese thinking to the Soviet president . |
| 27 | He spent two hours dying the jockstrap . |
| 28 | Mr Tomlinson says he spent two months solidly working from 5.30am in the morning until 10.30 in the evening , including weekends . |
| 29 | Before they were due to begin , Eliot travelled once again to America — first to his birthplace St Louis , where a heatwave affected him disagreeably , and then on to Cambridge where he spent two weeks with his relatives before travelling to Connecticut and New York . |
| 30 | He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him . |