Example sentences of "to spend [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deaths had also recently occurred of Mrs. R.B. Heathcote , a Governor from 1949 to 1974 , who left a legacy of £500 to the School , with instructions to spend the annual income from this on books for the Library , and of Professor Sir Frederick Williams , Old Stopfordian . |
| 2 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 3 | You wo n't have to spend the entire holiday peering into that steamy little porthole , watching the children 's vests revolving in the suds . |
| 4 | Alyssia had planned to spend the entire fortnight relaxing on the beach , drinking in the sun and getting gloriously tanned . |
| 5 | It 's possible to spend the entire night enjoying oneself and ending up having a good Copenhagen breakfast of meat and cheese , yoghurt and wienerbrød … ’ |
| 6 | For they meant that she was forced to spend the entire weekend in Jake 's company . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on how he proposes to spend the additional resources announced in the autumn statement . |
| 8 | Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job . |
| 9 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 10 | But he would have preferred to spend the extra time in bed none the less . |
| 11 | Will my hon. Friend do his best to ensure that constituents and police combine to spend the extra resources wisely ? |
| 12 | The total value of a player 's army may be slightly less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 13 | The total value of a player 's army may be less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 14 | I 've told Nenna time and again that she ought to get hold of some sort of reliable chap , an ex-Naval chippie would be the right sort , just to spend the odd day on board and put everything to rights . |
| 15 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 16 | The European Commission is to spend the largest sum ever allocated to an outside environmental project on protecting tropical rain forest in Central Africa . |
| 17 | She and David planned to spend the long weekend alone in Bristol . |
| 18 | For every year at midwinter the sun grows weak and pale , and he sinks down into the marshes to spend the long winter night there , and Mokosh , the old witch , his foster-mother , nurses him until he is strong again , with herbs and spells and incantations . |
| 19 | We have tried to keep them simple to prepare , bearing in mind that most of us are busy and therefore prefer to spend the minimum time possible preparing food . |
| 20 | Serious RP gamers tend to be the sort of nylon misfits who have no social life and can afford to spend the best part of a month mapping out Narnia-esque landscapes and jotting down all the facts and clues they can glean from meeting a variety of talking mushrooms and jovial trolls . |
| 21 | Norma said that she was going to spend the best part of the day as the guest of the Mayoress of Brighton — lunch in the Royal Pavilion — and then tea at the Marina . |
| 22 | Tonight , with Marlin working until nine and a late dinner planned , she 'd decided to spend the early evening assigning and wrapping the presents she 'd accumulated on her various Fifth Avenue sorties , sweetening her labours with wine and music . |
| 23 | Diane always tried to keep her weekends for spending with Jed , but because of the rain they had to spend the early part of the day in their own below-stairs lounge , watching the Saturday morning cartoons on television . |
| 24 | A neophyte taking a skiing holiday used to spend the first week in excruciating , character-forming exercises . |
| 25 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 26 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |
| 27 | In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair . |
| 28 | With Granby Village conveniently situated in the City centre close to shops and local amenities , it provided an ideal start for a shopping spree to spend the first part of the prize — £100 in cash . |
| 29 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |
| 30 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |