Example sentences of "[adv] spend a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably in the course of Hazlitt 's three-week visit that Joseph Cottle also arrived , finally persuaded by Coleridge and Wordsworth that he should travel down to spend a few days discussing the intended volume of poetry . |
| 2 | You can teach other members of your family how to take care of the patient in this basic way , or professional ‘ babysitters ’ who can come in to spend a few hours with the patient so that you can get away . |
| 3 | Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country . |
| 4 | Having just spent a few nights in a major-accident ward , I 'd rather be late than hurry . ’ |
| 5 | The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect . |
| 6 | I 've worked with better material than you , but it 's either that or — have you ever spent a million years in a coal measure ? ’ |
| 7 | They had always spent a few weeks every year in Ireland , relaxing and visiting old friends . |
| 8 | Fergie would probably spend a few pounds on it — if he could find it . |
| 9 | About ten days after the Club dance , my mother and father and I , and Anne and her parents drove up to spend a few days in the Rest House at Kota Belud , a beauty spot on the upper slopes of Kinabalu . |
| 10 | You see I could n't spend a hundred hours on a painting and only ask that amount of money . |
| 11 | In fact , I do n't know an actor who was n't actually brought up in LA and who has n't spent a few nights on the beach . |
| 12 | It contains an extraordinary collection , beautifully presented , and any hon. Members who find themselves in Carlisle would do well to spend a few hours there . |
| 13 | We would then spend a few moments sharing any relevant and deep intuition that had come to any of us , and it was remarkable to see what a full and varied message the daily passage gave us . |
| 14 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 15 | Because we are actually spending a hundred pounds , and refurbishing it , when it 's ac which it could therefore be their , their entire responsibility . |