Example sentences of "spent some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Court was in residence at the Tuileries the child spent some hours every day with both his father and mother , usually in the Empress 's study , and during the periods of residence at Compiégne , Fontainebleau or Saint Cloud , he was with them most of the time . |
| 2 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 3 | He arrived in Berlin in late August and spent some hours inspecting the College . |
| 4 | This was done , accordingly ; the two sisters spent some hours together each day in the schoolroom , neither making any complaint . |
| 5 | I spent some hours in a newspaper office getting nothing , not even any change , out of an understrapper who had learnt his English in Enfield , and wondering less and less intermittently what time the public parks shut . |
| 6 | He spent some hours in the United Kingdom on May 18 , visiting a plant of Royal Ordnance , a British Aerospace subsidiary , to review the development of a multiple rocket artillery system which had been the subject of a contract signed in September 1990 by Royal Ordnance and the Chilean firm Famae . |
| 7 | Last year , we spent some £60 million helping refugees and displaced persons overseas . |
| 8 | The uprating deals with the expenditure of the largest Government Department — it spent some £60 billion this year . |
| 9 | ‘ Are n't you the young man who spent some weeks with the research unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases ? ’ |
| 10 | He spent some weeks on the island in 1905 and , with the help of an islander , George Stout , kept up regular observations , including a complete diary of the year 1908 . |
| 11 | Every officer spent some years on the beat . |
| 12 | Mr Aimetti — who studied economics at Turin , spent some years teaching maths , six years working in banking , a similar period at SKF ( the ballbearing manufacturer ) and joined Iveco in 1978 sums up their position as ‘ complete autonomy — but we are always under control ’ . |
| 13 | In accountancy , for example , by the time you 've done your training and spent some years establishing yourself , you then have your children just at the time when you 're supposed to be going all out for partnership . |
| 14 | Even those whose fathers spent some years in industry tended to be brought up in the village . |
| 15 | Partly educated by a Jesuit , he spent some years in Rome , and rendered services to Pope Gregory XVI , but later he left the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 16 | In 1856 he established a business in Manchester as an electric-telegraph and lightning-conductor engineer , and spent some years on the development of a magneto-electric alphabetic telegraph , which was demonstrated at the international exhibition in London in 1862 . |
| 17 | Certainly Frankenstein had gone away to study — to Ingoldstadt , I now knew — and there spent some years researching into the nature of life . |
| 18 | Like his predecessor Ralph Hodge , Mike Brogden spent some years at Millbank as Personnel General Manager . |
| 19 | For example , the Audit Commission ( an arm of the treasury ) spent some time in 1987/8 with myself and others in a police research department assessing an OSU ( Operational Support Unit ) administrative system which they claimed had ‘ revolutionized police decision making ’ and released manpower for patrol equal to £6.358 million . |
| 20 | He still has sufficient force , passion and reputation to get his way if he puts his case forcefully enough and yesterday he spent some time in conclave with Carrick , Neil Hartley and coach Doug Padgett . |
| 21 | That worried us as there were several great skuas working the sky above the bog , and we spent some time waiting for the goose to return before setting off again . |
| 22 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 23 | When Nigel came back he usually spent some time checking his pulse rate . |
| 24 | You eventually managed to get a flight to Milan , where you stayed in hiding , and then you spent some time near Lake Como ? |
| 25 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 26 | They spent some time driving around before the woman persuaded the kidnapper to let her take the child into a shop to get some baby food . |
| 27 | He spent some time afterwards making a special metal umbrella . |
| 28 | Stirling and Tait managed to make it north to the escarpment where they spent some time observing enemy traffic on the coastal road below . |
| 29 | Throughout 1969 I spent some time each month visiting schools , and attending yet more meetings in Curzon Street . |
| 30 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |