Example sentences of "spend [adj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a number of North-Eastern stations a porter would spend half an hour every Saturday or Sunday releasing pigeons from individual baskets , according to the instructions on the label . |
| 2 | The Colonel could only spend half an hour with us . |
| 3 | I might spend half an hour , choosing a drink now you realise ! |
| 4 | Mark Feinstein , an American researching the problem , writes in New Scientist : ‘ Why would an animal spend such an extraordinary amount of energy letting the entire world know it 's indecisive ? ’ |
| 5 | They spent half an hour skinning it and gutting it , taking almost everything , including the brain and intestines ( which , fortunately , they kept for themselves to eat ! ) . |
| 6 | He spent half an hour in the restaurant , drinking coffee . |
| 7 | A substantial proportion of patrons — between 47%–63% — used materials in the library , and whereas most patrons spent less than half an hour in the library , the ‘ in-house users ’ spent half an hour or more . |
| 8 | After lunch he spent half an hour with McGowan in an outdoor café by the river . |
| 9 | The Countess told me that on arrival at the hospital after his death , she spent half an hour alone , sitting by his bed , just talking to him . |
| 10 | I spent half an hour skiing Don 's bumps , and found they interesting and realistic to ski . |
| 11 | I spent half an hour painting layer upon layer over the hole and went to bed , and in the morning took two hours picking the varnish off because I 'm quite hairy , and then the damn thing moved again . |
| 12 | He went off to a pub , spent half an hour with his mates , and then reported to the casualty department and was dead within a quarter of an hour . |
| 13 | Andy the Mouse got pretty manic and spent half an hour talking shop with a Mickey . |
| 14 | Club officials spent half an hour arguing over who had the right to wear their first strip . |
| 15 | And I said , or he said , I spent half an hour on the phone , trying to study , he said , she was from Ireland , he said , I could n't understand a bloody word she was saying . |
| 16 | Never a mention of the one who spent many an hour teaching him the way of things . |
| 17 | ‘ A women who 's spent half an hour in front of the mirror making herself attractive , 100 yards down the road hears a man on a building site say , ‘ Hello , beautiful ’ , and she looks shocked ! |
| 18 | To Black Cab drivers reading this with a told-you-so expression , I really had spent half an hour trying to flag one down ! |
| 19 | Jason Pierce has a rotten throat infection and has been forced to lay out $70 on antibiotics , drummer Jon Mattock has spent half an hour going round the college with a marker pen , adding Spiritualized 's name to the day-glo posters . |
| 20 | She must have spent half an hour making herself up . |
| 21 | They had spent half an hour with the President , the Director sitting back and letting Rostov take him through all the details of the last few weeks . |
| 22 | spent half an hour maximum , maybe twenty minutes would be , all it would take you just to do that one problem , while it 's reasonably fresh in your mind . |
| 23 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 24 | She was the maid at Drew 's Maidstone lodgings , who had witnessed the actor spending half an hour in the garden of the premises trying desperately to clean a navy blue jacket . |
| 25 | The scene closed with judge and prisoner bowing solemnly to one another , and the latter , after spending half an hour discoursing with his supporters in the courtroom , being led off to prison wreathed in smiles . |
| 26 | It was a sentence spending half an hour in that place — I did n't know how Bob would cope with three years . |
| 27 | Coupled with the challenges of a completely unfamiliar job , she was not sure that she had ever spent such an uncomfortable evening . |
| 28 | They 'd been delighted therefore to renew acquaintanceship at the beginning of the tour ; and thereafter had spent many an hour together , talking about old comrades they 'd known — those who 'd come through , and those who had n't … and reminiscing about some of the ‘ local talent ’ the GIs had been only too happy to discover , in Oxford itself and in some of the surrounding towns and villages . |
| 29 | Before he was shown his room and could get to bed , Charles had to spend half an hour with his French host and hostess , drinking coffee and little glasses of Framboise which he found nauseating . |
| 30 | The earlier smile , Sandra 's smile , lingered in the coffee bar until the proprietor began to bang the chairs upside down on to the tables , impatient to spend half an hour with Shirley Temple . |