Example sentences of "[noun] spend [art] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hector spent the winter learning how to cope with his blindness . |
| 2 | That was the day in October 1957 that Ken spent the afternoon rehearsing a new routine . |
| 3 | Countless Labour candidates spent the election defending their passionate commitment to a statutory minimum wage and workers ' rights . |
| 4 | Members of the Tyne and Wear Anti-Fascist Association spent the morning distributing leaflets to shoppers warning about the growth in ultra-right wing politics in Darlington . |
| 5 | IDEAL HOME 's Assistant editor Helen Barnett spent a day relaxing at Henlow Grange Health Farm in Bedfordshire where she tried both an aromatherapy and a reflexology massage . |
| 6 | In May , PA chief executive John Foden spent a week decorating his cottage in Cornwall . |
| 7 | An eight-year-old boy spent the weekend recovering after being knocked over by a car on Hollyhurst Road , Darlington . |
| 8 | When the current world tour ends in January , Colin is off with Davide to spend a month learning about shamanism in the jungle . |
| 9 | Becky , 29 , stormed out of the cottage where 36-year-old Jamie Blandford spent the weekend visiting his baby son George . |
| 10 | The Satanic Verses author spent an hour buying presents at the famous Bloomingdale 's store in New York . |
| 11 | Liley spent a season playing in the second team with just half a dozen first-team appearances before the opportunity came this season , and so far it has gone remarkably well . |
| 12 | Disappointed with Rough Trade 's handling of their latest single ‘ That Joke Is n't Funny Anymore ’ , the band spent a month exploring America , the land that would hold the key to their future . |
| 13 | The task force could n't allow the elephants to spend a year ambling through a crowded settlement . |
| 14 | The banks spend a fortune advertising themselves on television . |
| 15 | A further revolution that has not yet taken hold widely in Japan is that of networking personal computers and word processors , and one American working for a large Japanese company in Tokyo complained to Reuter of hours spent every day hunting down paper documents written on dedicated word processors and then stuffing them laboriously into facsimile machines — when an efficient personal computer network could save all the effort . |
| 16 | One programmer spent a week trying to find out what damage had been done and then putting it right . ’ |
| 17 | The remainder spent the summer waiting to be released or to receive ‘ allegations ’ which would give them something definite to contest . |
| 18 | Tom Keating spent a lifetime cocking a snook at the art world . |
| 19 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont spent the months following his resignation seeking to undo the consequent inflationary damage . |
| 20 | From Andy Pandy to ‘ Lord knows what he 's supposed to be , ’ staff at Putney spent the day collecting around the store in a variety of fancy dress costumes and raised £870 . |
| 21 | But as the promised storm broke , and they sheltered in the café eating more ice-creams , Shelley spent the time trying to imagine anyone setting their cap at her silent and uncommunicative boss . |
| 22 | Television cameras were covering the bill and a number of those opposite the prying lenses spent the time waving at the cameras . |
| 23 | The writers spent a year talking to workers and visiting the factory to make sure their production was as authentic as possible . |
| 24 | Seb spent the evening drinking steadily , talking generalities , until Jacob was called away to intervene in a fight between two of his navvies . |
| 25 | They regard a last-minute request to spend the weekend collating figures in Darlington as proof positive of their triumph against chauvinism . |
| 26 | Wahtever the true story , Folly Fellowship members took full advantage of the chance to spend an afternoon exploring Stancombe Park . |
| 27 | THE INSPIRAL Carpets spend the summer recording their third album and ‘ doing ’ the festival circuit . |
| 28 | While stadium staff spent the day clearing up at Brafield , the organisers expressed regret at the number of arrests , but insisted that Saturday night 's rave is the shape of things to come … |
| 29 | Thérèse spent a day rearranging her things , then invited her cousin up to take a look . |
| 30 | 92 year old , Mary Tanshill spent the day giving details of the theft to the police . |