Example sentences of "[pers pn] have to spend [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 2 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 3 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 5 | My position as warden means that I have to spend a fair amount of time in the office , dealing with correspondence and the large amount of information that our fieldwork generates . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you have to spend the major part of the day in an office , house or factory , can you open the windows ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 10 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 11 | Moreover , there is an absence of facilities for obtaining cards for the meters , so that many people who have to use them have to spend a considerable amount of money on travelling to get hold of cards . |