Example sentences of "spending the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been no shortage of excuses in the past few weeks for getting thoroughly ratted , for going down to The Lamb , finding a spot in the corner and spending the entire evening doing nothing more intellectually taxing than sinking five pints of Special . |
| 2 | Previously I always had difficulty in arranging a caretaker for the cottage , and often ended up spending the entire weekend gardening and doing the housework . ’ |
| 3 | I recall spending the entire Christmas of 1974 experimenting with various methods of enlarging my equipment . |
| 4 | His reaction had bewildered her , but she did n't want to dwell on it , because she knew that she would inevitably end up spending the entire evening thinking of him , and then feeling frustrated and angry with herself for having given in to her private weakness . |
| 5 | Originally the Irish FA considered spending the entire period on tour but making the two trips has proved more financially viable . |
| 6 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 7 | CLIVE DID NOT like the idea of spending the early evening with Amelia Dorf 's crowd of goat rapists and rich sickies , but as an entrepreneur he knew the importance of maintaining a personal relationship with his best customers . |
| 8 | Margaret had started driving lessons , was making progress with the solicitor , and spending the occasional evening with friends . |
| 9 | After leaving Paris where he had attended the CSCE conference on Nov. 19-21 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , Bush had himself visited the Middle East from Nov. 21 , spending the following day ( the US Thanksgiving Day ) with US troops in Saudi Arabia , meeting King Fahd there and Egypt 's President Mubarak in Cairo , and returning via Geneva where he had a meeting on Nov. 23 with President Assad of Syria . |
| 10 | We all agreed that the B/R grant should n't go on SCC running costs , but the question is , what might be an appropriate way of spending the remaining £600 ? |
| 11 | But Kiwi cricket chief Peter McDermott is prepared to play host to England as an alternative to Gooch 's men spending the complete winter unemployed . |
| 12 | Not all of us like using woodworking machines , and do not mind spending the extra time achieving results which may be less perfect and mechanical-looking . |
| 13 | In covering its spending the Central Bank had fuelled inflation by printing " trillions " of australs . |
| 14 | After spending the whole day besieged by newsmen at her Putney home , she heard the news of his downfall at exactly 5.35pm . |
| 15 | Some eels may then have discovered the richness of food to be found in estuaries and rivers and started spending the main part of their lives there . |
| 16 | Institutions , of course , will be the suckers conned into spending the big money for all this equipment . |
| 17 | It could not possibly be , could it , that the man responsible for taking on the loan , the then chairman of Keyser Ullman , Mr Edward du Cann MP , is spending the parliamentary recess leading a debt-collecting bandit gang in Sardinia ? " |
| 18 | Patrick de Bayser worked in his father 's gallery for two years after spending the previous two years in the gallery of paintings expert and dealer Eric Turquin . |
| 19 | But friends of Countess Spencer say she has told them she is spending the festive season at Mougins in France with her great friend Jacqueline de Ribes . |
| 20 | For all the concern over the level of public spending the British share as a proportion of GDP in 1979 was only at the mid-point of most western states . |