Example sentences of "[verb] to spend [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I want to spend a few minutes on again this is something we 'll test tomorrow , right so I 'm giving you , training 's all about doing what do you think ? |
| 2 | Where one librarian may choose to spend several complete days in the school vacation creating a database , other librarians or teachers may choose to spend a few hours every week over one or two terms . |
| 3 | I 'd like to spend a few minutes now trying to pull that together and then go onto how we evaluate these plans , because you 've all produced these and would n't you like to know how good they are and how bad they are ? |
| 4 | When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew . |
| 5 | Increasingly it seemed to him that there were people who needed to spend a few hours locked in a room with the likes of Chiodini . |
| 6 | Then at the beginning of summer Maria wrote to say that she was coming to spend a few days with them . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyway , after about six months I had saved several thousand dollars and decided to spend a few weeks drifting across the country to the West Coast . |
| 8 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 9 | Her father 's eldest sister , the aunt who now had the villa near Ravello where Sophia hoped to spend a few days after the visit to Rome , was in some ways very much like an older version of Penelope . |
| 10 | She was merely an old woman who wanted to spend a few minutes in nostalgic memory of long-ago visits to America . |