Example sentences of "had to spend a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year . |
| 2 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |