Example sentences of "n't spend [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Running in some ritual or phase of a game — for they did n't spend every minute of each day crawling and peering and prodding the ground — he had caught his foot in a root and fallen headlong . |
2 | ‘ Except that we ca n't spend every minute of the time we 're together making love , can we ? |
3 | They would n't spend a night like this in the forest with women and children to think of . ’ |
4 | He wo n't spend a night in the room . |
5 | ‘ Pity 'e do n't spend a bit more on these 'ouses , ’ Florrie remarked acidly . |
6 | Ah well we will wait and see erm , they 're trying to solve everybody 's problems but ours , er with all this talk about spending money on education , sorting out the traffic problems erm , it 's a pity they do n't spend a bit more time in their budget calculations in dealing with the problems of this council and not those of the county council . |
7 | Do n't spend a fortune on entertaining this evening , do it all at home . |
8 | And for the ‘ trimming ’ of previous Conservative leaders she borrowed Kipling 's words : ‘ I do n't spend a lifetime watching which way the cat jumps . |
9 | We often have lunch , although we do n't spend a lot of time socialising . |
10 | There 's no denying it , if you do n't spend a lot of cash , you go down . |
11 | Cos last year he was n't working and he did n't spend a lot on her . |
12 | Well they do n't they keep there prices down because they did n't spend a lot on advertising . |
13 | Would n't spend a lot . |
14 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
15 | 'E wo n't spend a penny on 'em . |
16 | She do n't spend no money now much . |
17 | She do n't spend no money . |
18 | For Leo , Do n't spend the day clock watching or tomorrow you 're going to be very much snowed under . |
19 | Jessamy , we ca n't spend the rest of our lives apart . |
20 | You ca n't spend the rest of your life running from one disastrous affair . |
21 | You ca n't spend the rest of your life paying for them . |
22 | But he ca n't spend the rest of his life waiting , he needs pushing to get him to live again . |
23 | I would n't spend the weekend with you if — ’ |
24 | ‘ But we ca n't spend the weekend together . ’ |
25 | She did n't spend the money on clothes — he suspected she just liked to see it mounting up as an escape fund . |
26 | And er they did n't spend the money when the sewage scheme was put into the town , the , the landlords did n't spend the money on bui rebuilding bits of the houses . |
27 | And er they did n't spend the money when the sewage scheme was put into the town , the , the landlords did n't spend the money on bui rebuilding bits of the houses . |
28 | ‘ You mean , you did n't spend the night with him in a hotel ? ’ |
29 | He would go to Maggie 's home but would n't spend the night , although frequently invited to do so . |
30 | She brought me breakfast in bed to ensure that I was awake and would n't spend the morning half-sleeping in frowsty tumbled sheets . |