Example sentences of "[verb] spend a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before focusing on the way in which educational accountability has manifested itself in evaluation procedures we want to spend a little time exploring this more general picture . |
| 2 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 3 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman and I manage to spend a little time in Lancashire together , and that he will come to Bath . |
| 4 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
| 5 | Having spent a fabulous time with the Easterhouse Women 's Group at the Wellhouse Community Centre , I have been encouraged to continue working on the issues central to my creativity , women , race and class — a wonderfully exciting picture to paint for our futures . |
| 6 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 7 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 8 | Although the Laputans were kind to me , I did not want to spend a long time in their country . |
| 9 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 10 | Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage . |
| 11 | My informant ( who wishes to be anonymous but nevertheless truthful ) had spent a short time in his early days as a signalman at OA & GB Junction Signal box . |
| 12 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 13 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 14 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 15 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 16 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 17 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 18 | I personally and I 'm sure it goes for many here , have spent a long time in the private rented sector and if the opportunity existed to get into council housing we would have taken it . |
| 19 | ‘ People have to spend a long time with robot animals first . |