Example sentences of "spent the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major Bradley of the Bryn Tyrch Hotel in Capel Curig helped the local man to acquire the skills of protective ropework , and Evan spent the Second World War training the Commandos and the Lovat Scouts to climb . |
| 2 | Like Anne Frank , Audrey spent the Second World War in occupied Holland . |
| 3 | After six nights in a row with O , Boy spent the seventh night on his own ; he went to his own place . |
| 4 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
| 5 | Many of the families spent the first night huddled together in the open but tradition maintains that no one suffered as much as a common cold . |
| 6 | In spite of his desire for Kiku , he spent the first night in Zurachina 's yurt . |
| 7 | He spent the first day in bed , after going to the Chinese takeaway to make sure he did n't starve . |
| 8 | The Huddersfield party arrived in Paris in the early morning after a journey of nearly twenty-four hours by train and boat , and spent the first day sightseeing . |
| 9 | We spent the first day climbing on Anglesey 's big sea cliffs to prove that we could climb at an extreme level . |
| 10 | We spent the first day getting over the long flight ( though with only three hours time difference there was no appreciable jet-lag ) and having a look round the town . |
| 11 | ‘ What sort of a day have you had ? ’ she asked him lightly , and spent the first course and half of the second in hearing how he did n't think he was giving so much concentration to his job as he should just lately . |
| 12 | D'Arcy spent the first hour of the morning arranging for a private aircraft to fly them from le Bourget . |
| 13 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 14 | To show ‘ solidarity with the poor ’ , and hoping , politely , to shame the Americans into faster delivery , President Guillermo Endara spent the first half of March fasting in Metropolitan Cathedral . |
| 15 | ‘ He took me to his hotel for dinner then spent the first half of the evening trying to get me drunk and the second half trying to get me upstairs . ’ |
| 16 | From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified . |
| 17 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 18 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 19 | However car 4 spent the First World War ferrying bread to the military camp at Squires Gate , for which it was fitted with a pair of side doors . |
| 20 | Fifteen Associates , plus two from each of the Irish and Scottish Institutes , travelled to Frankfurt , where they spent the first week of the ninth German Banking Study Tour . |
| 21 | Cos I spent , I spent the first week of the holiday mainly with Shelley . |
| 22 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 23 | More liberal constituencies in the party , some of them with close links to Hillary Rodham Clinton , the president 's wife , then spent the last half of 1992 making sure that their claims on the presidency were not forgotten . |
| 24 | A DETECTIVE spent the last moments of his life watching the Grand National in a pub with friends . |
| 25 | The Northern Echo published details of how she spent the last hours of her life on a shopping trip with her friend , Veronica Alderson , from Kirk Merrington . |
| 26 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 27 | Computone , which spent the last year re-organising , has , in a further ‘ belt tightening ’ effort , recently cut 20% of its 138 strong workforce . |
| 28 | " After about and hour-and-a-half or so of questions etc " Macmillan spent the last hour summing up " the political and military situation ; the problems confronting the Field Marshal and HMG and the equivocal and uncertain attitude of the Americans " . |
| 29 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 30 | As Denton has shown , Winchelsey had used Clericis Laicos tactically to keep the king at bay while evading the full implications of that bull — that the pope alone could give consent ; Edward spent the last years of his reign dexterously reversing this and nullifying the commitments which appeared to have been extracted from him by the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 . |