Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] spend a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman and I manage to spend a little time in Lancashire together , and that he will come to Bath . |
2 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
3 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
4 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
5 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
6 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
7 | Before focusing on the way in which educational accountability has manifested itself in evaluation procedures we want to spend a little time exploring this more general picture . |
8 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |