Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] spend [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 2 | I 'd spent all day going there had n't I , half a day going there . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 4 | I decided to spend three nights watching the Peckoltias when they would be at their most active to gauge the aggression that — during the day — I did not see . |
| 5 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 6 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 7 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 8 | I had to spend three days in bed and did n't really kick a ball in the build-up to the Highfield Road game . |
| 9 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 10 | I had spent many years teaching the EFATO to PPL students , but this was different . |
| 11 | I had spent six months at the Admiralty 's expense at Cambridge acquiring an interpretership in Russian . |
| 12 | I had spent four hours catching nothing and he simply swooped down and lifted a trout of at least 2lb from under my nose . |
| 13 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 14 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 15 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 16 | I had spent three years researching contemporary mysticism , and it was through John Michel , a colleague of mine who was an authority on Druid mythology and the ancient sites of Britain , that I first met Ringo . |
| 17 | Before that , I had spent three years as an education officer at Marwell Zoo Park , followed by several months as a wildlife officer at Lilongwe Nature Sanctuary in Malawi . |
| 18 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 19 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 20 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , so would you if you 'd spent all night in them tunnels ! — How did you know I was in there , anyway ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 23 | as if he 'd known she 'd spent all night wondering about the feel of his lips on hers , about how it would be if he kissed her . |
| 24 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 25 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 26 | I could hardly credit it when Carole said we were on a cushy number ; she 'd spent whole days hacking down rhododendrons and that was really back-breaking work . |
| 27 | She 'd spent last Wednesday evening drinking at the Royal Legion Club in Swindon Town Centre . |
| 28 | However , the pensione was not particularly comfortable and she preferred to spend more time away from it than in it . |
| 29 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 30 | She had spent all afternoon trying to ask Nanny more , but Nanny had been in a funny mood , laughing one minute and crying the next , and not making any sense of anything she said . |