Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] spent [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael has already spent considerable time in Barcelona , but despite those commitments the all important cross country course at Bramham Park is well on the way to completion thanks to the endeavours of George Podmore and his team . |
| 2 | He had already spent much time on the hotel telephone to Scotland Yard . |
| 3 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 4 | This was similar to the proportion receiving help from district and other nurses among those who had not spent any time in such homes once sudden deaths and those who had spent all their last year in hospital have been excluded . |
| 5 | I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there . |
| 6 | In Angola and Mozambique , there are strange creatures called ‘ Marxist-Leninist States ’ when Marx and Lenin had both spent much time denouncing the State as intrinsically oppressive , but the media mean no more by this phrase than radical nationalists . |
| 7 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
| 8 | There was a loud echo in the grounds of Wyvis Hall , Mary 's scream ringing back from off the wood and walls and starry waters , and Rufus , a town dweller who had never spent much time in the countryside , expected alarmed or annoyed people to arrive or the disconnected phone to start shrilling with complaints . |
| 9 | Yet , because of other commitments , I have arguably spent less time than ever with my fish . |
| 10 | They have always spent considerable time visiting schools ; in the nineteenth century there were regular visits , including during the period of payment by results ( 1862–1898 ) when the outcome of an inspection , involving assessing the children 's performance , determined whether or not the school received funds . |
| 11 | But their philosophy comes pouring out , and you realise that they certainly have n't spent much time thinking about any aspect of their behaviour , or the kind of images they project , let alone strange and isolated postures . |
| 12 | We have n't spent much time discussing our personal lives , have we ? ’ |
| 13 | Since that day I have never spent much time at the green table and , once I got out into the world of journalism , worked hard at it . |