Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] spend many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwin Stephenson , who played for Yorkshire between 1858 and 1873 , was one of the youngsters who spent many hours ‘ pegging ’ away , bowling at Sampson on the Broomhall pitch . |
| 2 | As a youngster he spent many hours playing cricket with his good friend John Turner and several other boys on a piece of waste ground at the top of Young Street . |
| 3 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 4 | In his retirement he spent many hours on the golf courses either at Dinsdale Spa or Blackwell . |
| 5 | Vancouver had its share of unusual ‘ characters ’ one of these being ‘ Professor ’ Francis , a tall rather unkempt and unshaven man who spent many hours in the CBC studio lobby watching the rehearsals or broadcasts through the plate glass windows . |
| 6 | The John Motum Plate was named in recognition of the current assistant treasurer of the RFU who spent many years as general secretary of Colchester . |
| 7 | I am a gardener of the physical who spend many hours tending my flowers but I am also a mental gardener and spend even more hours tending transcendent flowers . |
| 8 | Students who spend many hours writing up laboratory reports in the evenings have not organised their time effectively . |
| 9 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 10 | Coming as it does from a historian who spent many years as a professional diplomatic officer , this judgment must command respect . |