Example sentences of "spent [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent the rest of his life in expertise , painstakingly cataloguing the pictures and drawings of his favoured period , the Italian Renaissance , and in giving advice , notably to the great Bostonian collector , Mrs Gardner , and the main dealer of the period , Joseph Duveen . |
| 2 | I spent the rest of the morning being shown some of the routine duties of a catering assistant . |
| 3 | It was an unsustainable pace and Lyle spent the rest of ‘ 89 in seclusion . |
| 4 | In May they released their first single , ‘ Eleven O'Clock Tick Tock ’ , and spent the rest of the summer touring Britain . |
| 5 | The JPs , who spent the rest of the day hearing other cases , will now be the subject of an inquiry by the Lord Chancellor 's Office . |
| 6 | Following this unsuccessful attempt to return to Kidderminster , Richard Baxter spent the rest of his life in and around London . |
| 7 | If he lifted a piece of chalk or opened a book , it usually tired him out so much that he spent the rest of the lesson dozing . |
| 8 | Wednesday spent the rest of the afternoon asleep on Endill 's bed . |
| 9 | Mayne 's party spent the rest of the night dodging the enemy and , as dawn broke , they discovered that they were in the middle of a large military camp . |
| 10 | We spent the rest of the night collecting wood , examining each piece by torchlight before touching it . |
| 11 | That left me with dozens of portly gentlemen in blue who spent the rest of the night eating my shortbread , drinking my coffee and asking me if I knew Terry Wogan . |
| 12 | Eleanor , disguising herself as a man , attempted to join them , but was captured and spent the rest of Henry II 's reign in prison . |
| 13 | It was an ambitious aim , for Leeds were in the ignominious position of seeking re-election , and Chapman spent the rest of May canvassing for votes . |
| 14 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 15 | They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome . |
| 16 | It had a shelter for a hundred or so , and I spent the rest of the night there . |
| 17 | Some of the lucky ones took to their parachutes and spent the rest of the war in Germany — perhaps ‘ lucky ’ is not the right word , but at least they were alive . |
| 18 | She was now down in our kitchen , being given brandy , followed by hot , sweet tea for shock ( we all had some of this ) , and we all spent the rest of the night huddled together under the Morrison table shelter in the dining room . |
| 19 | On this night the fire-watchers heard the nose-cone come down , it made such a crash , thought it was an incendiary , and spent the rest of the night searching for it , in vain . |
| 20 | Corbett spent the rest of the evening analysing what he knew and had learnt but soon realised that he had been drawn into a maze of marshy morass and the more he probed , the more puzzled he became . |
| 21 | I was terrified of knocking on the door of the house to ask permission but I was even more terrified of going back and making a fool of myself because of my ignorance on court so I spent the rest of the afternoon skulking behind the sweet peas . ’ |
| 22 | When I tried this sort of stuff before , I had one flight in a sort of plywood packing-case painted the colour of the blue stuff they used to paint on your balls when you got crabs and spent the rest of the day hanging around with a pack of strangle-voiced bores in bobble hats . |
| 23 | After the Officer-in-Charge had inspected their cells they spent the rest of the day in the Association Room . |
| 24 | He spent the rest of the double period seated at a desk in the corridor copying chunks of Shakespeare plays onto pieces of file paper . |
| 25 | He spent the rest of his life adding to his materia medica and developing his ideas about disease and its treatment . |
| 26 | Not only did they drench her in a water fight when she did n't have a change of clothes and throw her on the muck heap , but on Friday evening offered her a roll filled with Doggie Dins , so she spent the rest of the night throwing up . |
| 27 | It was a lucky thing , for she spoke French and I spent the rest of the day with her and her two friends , Lena and Maria . |
| 28 | Sarah , 31 , was an attractive , stylishly dressed woman who worked part-time as the manager of an interior design shop , and spent the rest of her time looking after her daughter , Zoe , aged two . |
| 29 | The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns . |
| 30 | After the Carshalton accident in 1907 , the staff were evidently rather reluctant to use these cars on the Sutton route and they spent the rest of their working lives on the Croydon — Mitcham — Tooting section , which had no gradients . |