Example sentences of "[noun] he spend [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At his own expense he spent some months in England attached to units of the British Army for training . |
| 2 | Wounded at Dunkirk he spent five years as a POW in Germany . |
| 3 | He was hired anyway on the condition he spend two months studying English at Berlitz . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr X found the sound of running water reduced his tinnitus ; on bad days he spent much time in the bathroom . |
| 6 | In his retirement he spent many hours on the golf courses either at Dinsdale Spa or Blackwell . |
| 7 | Most years he spent some time in Anagni or Segni , his home region ; otherwise Rome was his main place of residence . |
| 8 | Just before the revolution he spent seven months in detention chained to a wall . |
| 9 | This week he spent four days working on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 10 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 11 | After leaving the Dardanelles he spent some time in Salonika and Egypt , before being posted as brigadier-general ( November 1915 ) on the staff of the reserve corps led by Sir Hubert Gough [ q.v. ] on the western front . |
| 12 | Before he joined Baronsmead he spent several years with a much larger organisation . |
| 13 | Before joining P&O he spent 31 years at sea and ashore with Union Castle Line . |
| 14 | Last year he spent three months in a special rehabilatation clinic in Moscow , and his mobility improved drmatically . |
| 15 | This year he spent seven weeks in America on a flying scholarship for the disabled . |
| 16 | Despite all this external activity he spent long periods of time in his diocese , active in every facet of ecclesiastical administration , as is revealed by his register , the first to survive for the diocese of Winchester . |
| 17 | For Mister Roadrunner he spent three weeks on the road in America in difficult conditions . |
| 18 | JEALOUS Jerry Hall is quizzing staff at the chateau Mick Jagger bought for her — about claims he spent secret nights there with Carla Bruni . |
| 19 | During his years at the Old Palace he spent considerable sums on restoring the building . |
| 20 | Oh probably just did it Do you know what Terry 's do you know what one of my children did today ? do you know what did apart from the fact he spent all day crying then he had to do the corrections , I said go back and do your corrections , said right on your own I wrote something that went no homework done , so he wrote no homework done , no homework done , no homework done ! |