Example sentences of "he spent [adj] [noun pl] " 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 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 | He spent 18 years working for Ford , ending up as manager of its Dearborn assembly plant . |
| 13 | He spent 4 years or so with QPR and starred in the FA Cup final in 1982 . |
| 14 | He spent six months running the Silo chain last year . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He spent six months in jail . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He spent five minutes cleaning his nails with a nailbrush . |
| 21 | Wounded at Dunkirk he spent five years as a POW in Germany . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Christopher , of Bognor Regis , Sussex , was rushed to hospital , where he spent five days recovering from his ordeal . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This week he spent four days working on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 30 | 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 . |