Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] spend a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end I retreated to the sofa , where I spent a cold , uncomfortable and furiously sleepless night . |
| 2 | More customers are flooding into Tesco 's 401 stores , where they spend an average £30 a week , but that 's a three per cent drop on last year . |
| 3 | Williamson donated more than £500,000 to Lancaster and about £100,000 to Lytham St Annes , where he spent an increasing amount of time after 1913 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
| 5 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 6 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in the garage and the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too . |
| 7 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 8 | Showing the Princess in conference with one of her dress designers did nothing to allay the view that she spent an inordinate amount of money on clothes ; and broadcasting the Prince 's remark that he talked to the flowers in his garden was a bad mistake . |
| 9 | When you consider that we spend a third of our lives in bed , that hardly seems an extravagance . |
| 10 | Although he spent a good part of each year in England , he ruled in the personal manner of his father and great-uncle . |
| 11 | Erm Ray raised an interesting point , loading for management time , for example Ray would argue that he spends a disproportionate amount of time travelling to meetings , more than any of the other members |
| 12 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 13 | In 1967 I was awarded the Rome scholarship and I spent a marvellous year at the British School in Rome . |
| 14 | He and I spent a happy weekend visiting London together . |
| 15 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 16 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 17 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 18 | ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea … |
| 19 | The taxi driver speaks no English and I spend a fraught moment or two wondering whether he has understood that I do n't want to go to Keflavik , but after the shorter tour of Reykjavik we arrive . |
| 20 | If I spend a good while looking at it and I ca n't find anything different can we , maybe we start doing some ringing ? |
| 21 | This was not quite so convenient for her , and she spent a good deal of time travelling back and forth in her carriage . |
| 22 | At this point , it will pay dividends if you spend a few more seconds scanning the small print in the ads . |
| 23 | She came up to London once and we spent a wonderful evening at the opera and a morning in Liberty 's . |
| 24 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 25 | She wondered why John had not been more open with her but now she felt that she understood his situation better and they spent a blissful week together before he left . |
| 26 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 27 | The cost of the service was nearer £85 than £75 and they spent a further £50 on food and drink . |
| 28 | Mother and Father had retired hurt , along with my younger brother , Fergus , and they spent an unhappy night wrestling with the toils of sea-sickness . |
| 29 | For the final tape a small production team of seven from the two schools was formed and they spent an extra day on this activity . |
| 30 | These creatures are the heavy armoured tanks of the insect world and they spend a great deal of their time on the ground , barging their way through the vegetable litter , scrabbling in the soil or gnawing into wood . |