Example sentences of "he spend [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died in his studio ; did he spend much time there ? ’ |
| 2 | True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends . |
| 3 | He spent each morning working on it and was , in addition , trying to keep down his evening engagements to only two a week , seeing no one at all on Fridays and Saturdays . |
| 4 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |
| 5 | It was a painstaking process , which ensured that he spent many hours in churchyards as a young man . |
| 6 | This is true , but do not forget that he spent many hours a day thinking about his problem over seven years . |
| 7 | As a youngster he spent many hours playing cricket with his good friend John Turner and several other boys on a piece of waste ground at the top of Young Street . |
| 8 | In his retirement he spent many hours on the golf courses either at Dinsdale Spa or Blackwell . |
| 9 | His thesis project involved experiments that had been anticipated by his exhibition model from school : he spent many months during his studies taking part in experiments at the world 's largest ( and working ! ) electron accelerator in Stanford , California , receiving his PhD in 1978 . |
| 10 | Nearly two hundred years ago , Hahnemann considered that the treatment of chronic illness was the greatest challenge to medicine and he spent many years of his life working on this problem . |
| 11 | While Mr Malik hardly ever discussed religion with Robert , he spent many evenings in the La Paesana restaurant , Mitcham , going over the finer points of Islamic doctrine with Maisie . |
| 12 | Mr X found the sound of running water reduced his tinnitus ; on bad days he spent much time in the bathroom . |
| 13 | He spent much time visiting most states of the Union and acting as a super salesman for Iran . |
| 14 | From 1883 he spent much time abroad , especially in areas of active volcanoes . |
| 15 | He spent much time today and yesterday denying that he would increase from 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 16 | In his early years in Edinburgh , he spent much time in reorganising and rationalising the pathology service in the Royal Infirmary and associated hospitals and he laid a sure foundation of academic pathology in the Medical School . |
| 17 | I could n't say where he spent that evening , not for certain . |
| 18 | And he spent all day with them . |
| 19 | Oh probably just did it Do you know what Terry 's do you know what one of my children did today ? do you know what did apart from the fact he spent all day crying then he had to do the corrections , I said go back and do your corrections , said right on your own I wrote something that went no homework done , so he wrote no homework done , no homework done , no homework done ! |
| 20 | I think Mr. Mendez wanted to get him on his way before he had time to change his mind ; before he spent another night staring at the ceiling and counting all the reasons why he should n't go to Contention . |
| 21 | When they found her , on an estate in Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent another £68,000 — snapping up the house next door . |
| 22 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 23 | He spent more time hanging out at Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 24 | And Tucker was saying , ‘ He spent more time in the islands these past years than ever before . |
| 25 | He spent more time on the Vibrancy at Mandru than he ever had in Por Tanssie . |
| 26 | Soon Gabrielle learned to leave him alone in his despair , and he spent more time playing darts and billiards at a Battersea pub . |
| 27 | Since the Congress Kingdom of Poland was only one of a number of outlying parts of the empire which required his attention , and since he could hardly afford a forward policy in western Europe or the Balkans until his own peripheries were fully integrated into the imperial structure , he spent more time in the 1830s and 1840s on his own non-Russian subjects than on dealings with foreigners . |
| 28 | He spent several minutes observing , but saw nothing . |
| 29 | In the aftermath of Mountbatten 's murder in August 1979 , Charles 's friendship with Lady Amanda developed and he spent several weekends in her company as they tried to come to terms with their loss . |
| 30 | He spent several moments in thoughtful silence , almost as though wondering whether or not to confide in her . |