Example sentences of "spending [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between those spending all and those spending some of the last twelve months in a home persisted when the analysis is confined to those for whom relatives responded . |
| 2 | Both are now normally resident in Victoria , Tribe spending some of the Australian winter on Queensland 's Gold Coast |
| 3 | Princess Diana , meanwhile , was spending much of the day with a man who knows some of her most intimate secrets . |
| 4 | Accordingly he left Cambridge and moved to Oxford , spending much of the period between 1681 and 1685 in London , where his brother Jacob was leader of the Sephardi community . |
| 5 | Mary-Claude was sad to leave because , after spending much of the summer visiting her family with Sarah , she was not looking forward to an indefinite stay in Alabama , where she knew hardly anyone and where , after Beirut and Larnaca , the sheer difference in the scale of everything made her feel uneasy and exposed . |
| 6 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |
| 7 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 8 | For the production crew , filming the six-part series meant spending much of the time crawling around on the floor . |
| 9 | People have been counted as spending all of the last year of their lives in residential homes if they had lived in one for a year or more . |
| 10 | This produced , even despite that , two hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred pounds of underspending in ninety-three four on just general expenses , on operational expenses , now I think if , if the Chief Constable says he has n't got enough money to do what he wants to do , he could start by spending all of the money he 's had this year , in recruiting all the officers he 's been allowed to recruit . |
| 11 | Hence he attaches importance to spending more of the government 's research cash in industry as opposed to within the government 's own establishments . |
| 12 | After spending more of the taxpayers ' funds to make the King Edmondo seaworthy , and to rig her out with state-of-the-art marine communications equipment , Coleman handed the boat over in late March to Hurley , who renamed her Skunk Kilo . |
| 13 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 14 | Very out of practice at driving , she had several near-misses on the motorway and her nerves were n't helped by Perdita spending most of the journey with her hands over her eyes , as Daisy ground recalcitrant gears and proceeded in a succession of jerks down the High Streets of Oxfordshire villages . |
| 15 | Just being back home is the greatest thing , ’ said 32-year-old fan Paul Watts , who is spending most of the days he can get off work this week painting at The Valley . |
| 16 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 17 | She has a greyness under her eyes and a slouch from spending most of the day on her feet . |
| 18 | It looks a bit chilly , and a team of balloonists have been feeling rather chilly today and have been spending most of the day in a fridge . |