Example sentences of "spend time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A salesperson can therefore usefully spend time considering how best to respond to these recurring situations . |
| 2 | Nearly half a century after those dark days , 300 girls attending secondary schools will spend time over the next two weeks on a bus that is going nowhere . |
| 3 | I love shopping for excellent ingredients and would rather spend time on this than anything else . |
| 4 | Although we will not spend time on it , ‘ external culture ’ enters our sample firm in the form of enormous variety — personnel on a production line speaking ten or more languages other than English , for instance . |
| 5 | You can , of course , spend time on their care ; working amongst herbs in a herb garden is a particular pleasure to which fragrance , nostalgia , usefulness and the anticipatory satisfaction of one 's stomach all contribute . |
| 6 | You do n't not spend time on someone just because they are n't about any longer . |
| 7 | A new cooker or whatever can be a tremendous boon and investment but before you go out and spend money ask yourself questions about the way you live : is the pace hectic or leisurely ? how many and what sort of meals do you have to provide ? are you far from a good supermarket or freezer centre ? how much time do you have for shopping ? are you out at work all day ? do you grow your own vegetables ? how often do you entertain ? can you spend time on cooking and food preparation or is it always meals in a hurry ? |
| 8 | If you wish to er , spend time on those . |
| 9 | If you are losing children do spend time with the dissatisfied parents to explore not just the event that has brought the situation to a head but dig deep for other areas of dissatisfaction , hostility or conflict . |
| 10 | This was not to say that he did n't spend time with the army , lending vigorous help as the trains of oxen dragged the batteries into position , and the wagonloads of food and fodder , weapons and powder bumped fifty miles south-east from Kyrenia to where Famagusta lay , lodged in its bay , divided by ninety broad sea miles from Syria . |
| 11 | who would he spend time with ? |
| 12 | Announcing the Christmas plan , a palace spokesman said : ‘ During the Christmas holiday , Prince William and Prince Harry will spend time with each of their parents individually . |
| 13 | This meant the Duchess got a free air ticket to Sydney , Australia , and could spend time with Andrew while his ship was in southern waters . |
| 14 | It was decided that before going up to Oxford , which in fact he never did , he should spend time with a German family in Mecklenburg and three months studying at the university in Jena , where he attended lectures on philosophy and political economy and made many close friends among German Jews . |
| 15 | We 're delighted that you have found time out of your busy schedule and timetable to come and spend time with us today and we 're very glad that you are able to do so and I would ask er , John , our moderator if he will receive me now and invite you to address our . |
| 16 | ACET volunteers work as part of a team and provide help in many different ways to ensure that people do n't spend time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 17 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 18 | The fact that we must spend time in activities or surroundings which we find distasteful in support of a relationship is the cost of that relationship . |
| 19 | Whether or not attitudes changed in the next ten years , by the Act 1 & 2 Victoria cap 110 of 1837 abolished arrest by ‘ mesne process ’ by which , as seen , a debtor could spend time in prison before his case had been tried in court and judgement made on it . |
| 20 | Despite these research findings all of us do spend time in groups and a variety of processes and procedures have been developed by researchers and consultants to improve the effectiveness of decision-making in groups . |
| 21 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |
| 22 | Guests can spend time by the sea — the sandy beaches of Senigallia are only 20 miles away — or explore the major Umbrian cities , like Gubbio and Assisi , which are all within an hour 's drive of the hotel . |
| 23 | She 'd assumed he spent time over the border in France , where she knew he had friends . |
| 24 | Many of his ideas were published in Hints on Agricultural Subjects ( 1809 ) , and his views on Ireland , where he spent time between 1813 and 1816 , in Observations on the State of Ireland , Principally Directed to its Agriculture and Rural Population ( 1818 ) . |
| 25 | She specialised in tax and spent time as a manager at Edelman 's Croydon office . |
| 26 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 27 | Will often visited Lord Southampton , but sometimes we went on tour with the company , or spent time at home in Stratford . |
| 28 | During the week that he was with Wood Group , spent time at Rolls Wood Group [ Repair and Overhauls ] Ltd . |
| 29 | Both King Robert II ( 1371 – 90 ) and his son Robert III ( 1390 – 1406 ) spent time at Rothesay and carried out minor building works on it . |
| 30 | He also spent time at Grantham and Gainsborough for production training . |