Example sentences of "spent a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |
| 2 | The two of them spent a while together , in a flat in Glasgow , but they did n't marry . |
| 3 | thinking , Oh if only I spent a bit more time |
| 4 | After visiting the Hayward Gallery I spent a half-hour just gazing along the river line , the historic buildings sharp in the clear , cold , sunny air . |
| 5 | Later this rosebud spent a weekend at the stately home of a young lord . |
| 6 | She spent about seven weeks during which time her mother spent a weekend with us too . |
| 7 | Her mother spent a weekend with us about six months after Shanti came to us , to reassure herself that for us to adopt Shanti was really what she wanted . |
| 8 | A very dear friend from Hong Kong , a visiting Chinese University teacher , spent a weekend with us , and gave us news of friends we had met there . |
| 9 | Secure Ministers spent a weekend at Chevening in Kent pondering the future of social security . |
| 10 | We were called in twice to enforce the order , he spent a weekend in Saughton the second time . ’ |
| 11 | Early in 1989 , Sam , his father and several other Tour members of the Bob Torrance School of Golfing Excellence , spent a working holiday in Florida . |
| 12 | After recovering from his injuries he spent a tour as a Link Trainer Instructor before converting to the Canberra in 1955 . |
| 13 | During the Easter vacation he spent a fortnight working in Stepney . |
| 14 | He could have just got the ferry to Fishbourne and spent a fortnight at Butlins . |
| 15 | ‘ He spent a fortnight going around completely filthy until he gradually got over it ’ León , that is , not his best friend . |
| 16 | Two winters ago , as Taylor tried desperately to revive his career , he spent a winter in the Aussie outback playing for a little-known team called North Kalgoorlie . |
| 17 | I only spent a tenner all week . |
| 18 | I mean , if we spent a tenner each . |
| 19 | The father opposed Hitler and spent a year in a Nazi concentration camp in occupied France , then returned to Berlin in 1945 to help build a new Germany . |
| 20 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 21 | ‘ I read Middle Eastern Languages , and spent a year in Turkey after Oxford , then came back to the Museum . |
| 22 | I 've got four CSEs and I spent a year on day release , learning about making wreaths and business management . |
| 23 | He spent a year as senior anaesthetic house officer at the Westminster Hospital and did his National Service in the RAF medical branch as a junior anaesthetic specialist . |
| 24 | He spent a year in Britain during which time he was commissioned to write numerous articles criticising Russia which earned him a considerable amount of money , some of which he spent on a very comfortable lifestyle . |
| 25 | I spent a year and a half in a kibbutz then joined the English army for five years . |
| 26 | Kafka was a guest , so too was Albert Einstein in 1910 when he spent a year at Charles University . |
| 27 | In 1883 , Maginn quitted teaching and spent a year studying at home before going to Gallaudet College , Washington , U.S.A. ( the first British deaf student to do so ) in 1884 . |
| 28 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 29 | Schoolboy John Stevens from Uddingston suffered from rheumatoid arthritis as a child and spent a year in hospital . |
| 30 | Instead Elizabeth spent a year at business college in St Albans before joining the bright lights of London 's magazine world . |