Example sentences of "spending much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Princess Diana , meanwhile , was spending much of the day with a man who knows some of her most intimate secrets . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | For the production crew , filming the six-part series meant spending much of the time crawling around on the floor . |