Example sentences of "spent time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rejection at selection time after this may be both a personal disappointment to them and frustrating for bureau staff who have spent time to no end . |
| 2 | Here he entertained the celebrities of the day , Pope , Warburton , Richardson , Quin and Garrick , who would all have spent time with the local squire of Widcombe . |
| 3 | His interest in , and knowledge of , inner-city problems is more profound and personally felt than that of most government ministers and civil servants , according to those who have spent time with him . |
| 4 | If you doubt this , think of those patients who have slipped into a coma and who are awakened when those who love them have spent time with them , talking to them , touching them , playing their favourite music . |
| 5 | I have spent time with all three parties ' leaders during the past ten days . |
| 6 | Jimmy Connors after being knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round I 'VE spent time with her and she is everything that a man could want . |
| 7 | Danny and Dick both spent time with Saracens and Wasps , so have plenty of experience . ’ |
| 8 | As anyone who has spent time with the man knows , his whole charm derives from his lack of focus . |
| 9 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 10 | And I knew what it was like to be tired and weary , but I knew that if I trusted in God and spent time with him then he would renew my strength and I could carry on . |
| 11 | 11.35 : Spent time with J. Talked about how his day was going , what work he had done etc . |
| 12 | Debray , later a minister in France 's socialist President Mitterrand 's Government , had spent time with Guevara in the jungle , and had been sentenced to thirty years by the Bolivians . |
| 13 | Perhaps , what is more common is that , we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their few minutes . |
| 14 | Those who have spent time on the big metropolitan councils seem to feel it most acutely . |
| 15 | Patrick Kelly , whom Dan would look on as an ill-educated lout , had actually spent time on her enjoyment . |
| 16 | Since joining the company in 1977 as Cargo Planning Assistant , he has held several positions within the company and has spent time on secondments in South Africa and Dubai . |
| 17 | Fawns ( 34 ) has spent time on the East Enders and Blind Date sets as part of an interior and television set design course at Telford College , but she was impressed after seeing a programme going out live . |
| 18 | Napoleon actually spent time at the villa , staying there with Josephine . |
| 19 | The Italian author Parini also spent time at the house , as tutor to the family children . |
| 20 | The Duke of Wellington , both when ambassador in Paris and later as representative at the Congresses of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818 and Verona in 1822 , was enlisted in the campaign and in 1814–15 Clarkson and Macaulay , in 1818 Clarkson and in 1822 William Allen all spent time at the congresses meeting political leaders and arguing for defining the slave trade as piracy under international law . |
| 21 | Before leaving London that morning she had spent time at the hairdresser 's . |
| 22 | The inquest heard she had spent time in council care as a child and feared something similar might happen again . |
| 23 | One such was the 27-year-old Keith Littlejohn , who had spent time in Borstal after robbing an elderly shopkeeper . |
| 24 | But those least likely to have spent time in a hospital or hospice or to die in one were those who had lived in a nursing home for a year or more . |
| 25 | This lower use of hospital inpatient facilities was not accounted for by the older age of the people in residential homes although fewer of all those aged 85 or more had spent time in hospital — 64 per cent against 80 per cent of those under 85 . |
| 26 | For example , many schools , colleges and environmental groups have spent time in remote islands , producing for their own use reports which contain botanical information which remains rather inaccessible . |
| 27 | The opposite palazzo is private , but the view to the small arcaded courtyard , especially if it is sunlit , is enough to make you yearn to have spent time in Renaissance Milan . |
| 28 | Yes , exactly , I 've spent time in Russia , this guy went and put a model in these situations . |
| 29 | But I 've spent time in her presence and she 's a very sexy lady . |
| 30 | Holly , you have to forget the past , that is what anyone who has spent time in the camps will say to you , you have to forget the past life . |