Example sentences of "n't spend a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would n't spend a night like this in the forest with women and children to think of . ’ |
| 2 | He wo n't spend a night in the room . |
| 3 | ‘ Pity 'e do n't spend a bit more on these 'ouses , ’ Florrie remarked acidly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Do n't spend a fortune on entertaining this evening , do it all at home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We often have lunch , although we do n't spend a lot of time socialising . |
| 8 | There 's no denying it , if you do n't spend a lot of cash , you go down . |
| 9 | Cos last year he was n't working and he did n't spend a lot on her . |
| 10 | Well they do n't they keep there prices down because they did n't spend a lot on advertising . |
| 11 | Would n't spend a lot . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 'E wo n't spend a penny on 'em . |
| 14 | ‘ But with Barney being so ill , and with Cara being so upset , it made it seem awful that I would n't spend an hour of my life doing this one big thing for her . ’ |
| 15 | Er we have n't spent a lot of time talking about some of those things today but it 's all been done . |
| 16 | I 'm not saying you do , but I have n't spent a penny on myself ! |
| 17 | He had n't spent a Christmas there for three years . |
| 18 | ‘ There are a lot of people around but they are n't spending a lot of money . ’ |