Example sentences of "spend a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If you take one of our accountants who might spend a day a month with a small business , the fact that the business is small and we 're big does n't matter at all . |
| 3 | The outfit Madonna is wearing costs £340 , and Browns of South Molton Street , London , are the only stockists of it in England but , with a bit of confidence , you can spend a fraction of that . |
| 4 | Fergie would probably spend a few pounds on it — if he could find it . |
| 5 | And yet , though I feel so sure that we shall spend a lovely but short time together somewhere alone , yet when I think calmly I grow despairing , for if I went to stay with you , anywhere in the same house and alone , nothing would induce mother to believe me really innocent and pure in heart . |
| 6 | The outside is lit by zany neon , and you can spend a day just reading the cartoons in the corridors ( Lower Town , 1 Place Rogier , telephone 02/2177580 , cost 3,900 fr ) . |
| 7 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 8 | The arthritis , an inherited complaint , was painful in both knees , she had slept fitfully , disturbed by nightmares , and now she was to go and spend a distressing afternoon with Eleanor . |
| 9 | Finally he would spend a great deal of time in preparing people for membership and in visiting members although here he could be helped by the deacons and stewards . |
| 10 | What we will end up with , no matter who wins , is a Minister for Sport who sits some distance from the corridors of power , who will likely be attached to some other ministry like Agriculture and Fisheries ( file ‘ Sport ’ under ‘ Codswallop ’ ) and who will spend a parliamentary career powerless , penniless and potless . |
| 11 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 12 | Unless you can do so your holding will deteriorate or you will spend a small fortune paying outsiders to look after it for you . |
| 13 | Who would pay a small fortune to come and spend a week in a draughty Highland hotel miles away from the slopes , when they could get a package holiday to somewhere snowy , romantic and convenient in the Alps for half the price ? |
| 14 | A qualified homoeopath will have studied for at least three years and will spend a great deal of time in compiling a detailed history of the patient , including character , antecedents , likes and dislikes and so on . |
| 15 | If you feel , for example , that your appearance lets you down , perhaps you could spend a little time studying magazine features to see where you could make some changes . |
| 16 | In case librarians and information scientists feel that the first stage of Taylor 's processes of adding value is not very challenging , I feel that I should spend a few moments indicating the considerable complexity of the publicly available information resource potentially relevant to business activities . |
| 17 | An officer on foot will often spend a whole shift without doing any police work , and without talking to anyone except to greet them and provide simple information … |
| 18 | Today , several men would spend a considerable time erecting steel scaffolding before such a job would be attempted . |
| 19 | T. D. There were men on the opposite beat and sometimes you could spend a little time talking to them as long as you were n't caught . |
| 20 | Inside , where they will spend a lot of time in this northern climate , the zoo has thoughtfully specified sleeping cubicles , scramble nets , climbing ropes and in particular , their log climbing frames . |
| 21 | Or they may even spend a good sum of money on refurbishing a suite of rooms with no apparent requirement of reward other than perhaps the naming of the rooms in acknowledgement . |
| 22 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 23 | Some students may spend a full ( the third ) year in placement . |
| 24 | After a lifetime of hanging around in pubs , he will spend a month hanging around the walls of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in this collection of original artwork by Harry Venning . |
| 25 | Like Eddie Bleasdale , Xionics 's chairman , Mike Bevan , is keen that his firm should concentrate on new products , rather than spend a lot of time setting up mechanisms for producing and selling goods in massive numbers . |
| 26 | The S.P. Lee will spend a month on the Ross Sea shelf looking for oil-bearing rocks . |
| 27 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 28 | Then , assuming the visitor was given a guided tour of the manor , he would then leave the kitchen and find the WC directly opposite the front door ; just a WC , no bath , no wash-hand basin , no toilet-paper , no mod-cons ; if he did wish to ‘ spend a penny ’ , well , yesterday 's newspaper was cut neatly into 6 inch squares and nailed on to a convenient wall . |
| 29 | He was mean of temper , ever ready for fisti-cuffs with all and sundry ; was fond of gambling on horses , dogs and cards ; would spend a lot of money drinking with his mates ; but would begrudge paying his small contribution to the upkeep of our home . |
| 30 | A single person can quite easily spend a week at a health farm or clinic without any feeling of loneliness or of being out-of-step with everyone else . |