Example sentences of "who spend their " in BNC.
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| 1 | School friends who spent their summer holidays at the shieling have assured me that the cows were as alert as they to the seasons and the signs of preparation . |
| 2 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 3 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 4 | The builders , overcome by the tragic outcome of their vast conception , had devolved into a shelled race who spent their nomadic existence migrating from one fragment of the sphere to another , living in the ruins of their once great cities and seeing the cosmos as a gigantic jigsaw puzzle being slowly assembled by God . |
| 5 | While it was vital to be well turned out , the young gallant should beware of imitating those fops who spent their time building huge and elaborate turbans : men like Mirza Abu Said , a great amir under Shah Jehan , who was so fastidious in the construction of his head-wraps that the Imperial Durbar had usually finished by the time he had finished tying it all together . |
| 6 | It was rumoured that an entire wing of the Patrician 's palace was filled with clerks who spent their days collating and updating all the information collected by their master 's exquisitely organised spy system . |
| 7 | The growth of the middle classes as industrialization became , got under way , men , more men earned their money , so instead of having two classes , the working class and the upper class who spent their lives in leisure , in idleness , you got another class of people who had to earn their living , but who still made a lot of money . |
| 8 | ‘ You make me sound like someone who spends their entire day in front of the nearest mirror and never travels without a cosmetic tray in their handbag . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 've got to be careful : they cause lots of trouble , ’ said Manoel , glancing nervously at the groups of patrolling military police and the slate-grey truck used to cart away vagrant minors who spend their days here sniffing glue , bathing in fountains , picking pockets and sleeping rough . |
| 10 | For thousands of children who spend their days locked up in the shanty towns while their parents work , the streets offer freedom and escape from domestic violence as well as a springboard to prostitution or petty crime . |
| 11 | However , aspiring unsigned acts with a reputation to make are n't likely to be in a position to sweeten up the hordes of sceptical scribes in the West End of London who spend their days loafing from one free lunch to the next . |
| 12 | Just as the sea , on its own , can be uncomfortably tedious , or just uncomfortable , so it tends to fashion strong , often amusing , character in those who spend their working lives upon it . |
| 13 | Those who spend their lives looking for some practical escape from the ordinary world eventually have to accept the fact that there is no escape except through death or the imagination . |
| 14 | There are those who spend their lives courting the unobtainable , pursuing impossible dreams ; and there are the Don Juans and femmes fatales who prefer to travel rather than to arrive , leaving behind them a path strewn with broken hearts . |
| 15 | People might call me an asshole for saying that , but I think it 's cheating the kids and the fans who go out and spend money on a record , who spend their time following a band and respecting and loving that band . |
| 16 | Not for him the limited intellectual life of some academics , who spend their careers developing minor lines of enquiry from their doctoral theses and seldom move far from the safety of their chosen subject . |
| 17 | erm , I mean people who spend their entire Saturday doing something that they , I mean , I do n't enjoy going out every Saturday ! |
| 18 | There are suits that are better equipped for the more demanding skier and manufacturers who specialise in this end of the market include Nevica , Berghaus , Phoenix , Degre 7 , Powderhorn and SOS who say they are not interested in following ski fashions : ‘ We make heavy duty workwear for people who spend their winters in the mountains . ’ |
| 19 | Lawyers who spend their days faxing revisions of contracts to one another could avoid the need to type in the changes every time they receive something new . |
| 20 | Now there is a committee of five and like Jim , all are volunteers who spend their free time organising football for the local kids . |
| 21 | I personally think with these smaller of the theat of the theatre companies who spend their life touring more or less |
| 22 | Richmond Town Council believes The Fosse should be a long stay car park because it used by day trippers who spend their day at the riverside . |
| 23 | But I would say to each of your listeners I sure you know people who find a tranquility , a centredness , a source of strength and confidence in their religious faith , they are the representatives of what religion can do , not the Ayatollahs , and not the fanatics , and not the people on television , but the people who spend their lives trying to be good and helpful , and one day they 'll look around and realise that happiness has snuck in the back door when they were n't even looking for it . |