Example sentences of "spent a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I well remember our first night with the aid of father-in-law we spent a long day moving ourselves in . |
| 2 | He spent a long life as a rector and was a Canon of St Patrick 's , Armagh . |
| 3 | She spent a long evening working with Philip , as his assistant , handing him tools , holding steady the beam of a powerful torch . |
| 4 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 5 | Moran spent a long time composing the letter . |
| 6 | He spent a long time over these calculations and they appeared to soothe him . |
| 7 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 8 | He spent a long time with her , talking , and making her feel better when she was crying and that .. |
| 9 | The girls spent a long time putting their new wardrobe together . |
| 10 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 11 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 12 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 13 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 14 | One group spent a long time comparing the different notes or tones produced when tubes of different width and length were blown or spoken down . |
| 15 | Toby ( 4.5 ) had been playing with blocks , but then wandered away and the blocks were put away by two other boys , who spent a long time carefully fitting the different sizes of blocks into the two boxes . |
| 16 | The properly trained hypnotherapist has , like the successful doctor , lawyer or musician , spent a long time studying , practising and perfecting his craft . |
| 17 | Dad spent a long time talking to our Pastor afterwards . |
| 18 | He spent a long time listening , and then said , ‘ You know , George Dionisovich , you 've fallen into to the hands of the Mafia . |
| 19 | We spent a long time on the sofa that evening , and I would have stayed the night if he 'd asked me but he did n't . |
| 20 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the driver spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the retired admiral spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 23 | The driver , as it turned out , was a retired admiral , and unfortunately he spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 24 | He and Claudia spent a long time talking to the police and to the accused man . |
| 25 | Alistair spent a long time on the covering note to Sixsmith — almost as long as he had spent on Offensive from Quasar 13 . |
| 26 | After all , Jones spent a long time getting the wording right , and you wo n't be able to improve on it . |
| 27 | They started in the Fabric Hall , and spent a long time fingering various swathes of cloth . |
| 28 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 29 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 30 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |