Example sentences of "[verb] spend a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 2 | Then at the beginning of summer Maria wrote to say that she was coming to spend a few days with them . |
| 3 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 4 | He had been Sam 's best customer during his vacation , had spent a few pounds on skates and cycles , and had in fact hired these for days at a time . |
| 5 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 6 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 7 | Her father 's eldest sister , the aunt who now had the villa near Ravello where Sophia hoped to spend a few days after the visit to Rome , was in some ways very much like an older version of Penelope . |
| 8 | She was merely an old woman who wanted to spend a few minutes in nostalgic memory of long-ago visits to America . |