Example sentences of "spend the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move to Midshire even made economic sense ; she had several modest school recitals in Birmingham and the Black Country during the next month , and it would be cheaper to move up there and find a furnished room somewhere , rather than spend the intervening time here in town . |
| 2 | Leather corals , unlike some coelenterates , do not spend the entire time fully expanded . |
| 3 | They 'd probably spend the entire time at one another 's throats ! |
| 4 | Me , too , come to that — if you do n't come , he 'll spend the whole time fretting about the book . ’ |
| 5 | Do not spend the whole time talking about yourself , your job and your life . |
| 6 | It has also been a tenet of good security that prisoners should spend the maximum time outside their cells being kept busy working . |