Example sentences of "[noun sg] spend a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seal spent a long time underwater , thinking . |
| 2 | In its initial year the new department spent a great deal of time and energy intervening in the private sector to try to save jobs , especially in the cutlery and engineering sectors . |
| 3 | The shepherd spends a solitary summer with a couple of dogs , a few hundred sheep and goats , sleeping in a tiny wooden cabin . |
| 4 | They managed to crawl away from the lava to spend a freezing night on a ledge 150 yards inside the 500ft vent . |
| 5 | In the case of the ‘ ordinary ’ person it may just be pleasant to record what has happened each day so that one can at some time in the future spend a nostalgic hour looking back on times past . |
| 6 | The girl spent a long time wondering whether she could pluck up courage to mention she 'd thought of going to the Swimming Gala if her mother really felt there was nothing she could do . |
| 7 | The 1988–89 Committee spent a long time agonising over the problem of how to keep the broadcasters at arms length , so that their editors would not be able to provide the signal in ways that might be journalistically attractive but would be repugnant to Members . |
| 8 | The field officer , after all , has the power to make a discharger spend a substantial sum of money . |
| 9 | Rain spent a few minutes sympathizing with the psychic 's frustrations and then suggested that she try Maureen again , but with a specific request for a set of keys . |
| 10 | One group spent a long time comparing the different notes or tones produced when tubes of different width and length were blown or spoken down . |
| 11 | The group spent a further £400 on pressing up 500 copies and £40 on the sleeves . |
| 12 | She was not particularly hungry , but she went down to the hotel 's dining-room around eight that evening , then returned to her room to spend a fitful night . |
| 13 | So we have gathered here this evening to spend a last evening telling jokes with our friend , who is unfettered by responsibilities . |
| 14 | It is the ideal place to spend a leisurely holiday . |
| 15 | The government 's approval of a £30 million road tunnel under the Devil 's Punchbowl , an important Surrey wildlife site and beauty spot , has fuelled controversy over its refusal to spend a smaller amount on a similar scheme in Oxleas Wood , London , which is scheduled for destruction by a new motorway [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 16 | This was , perhaps , because there was an increasing number of women readers with leisure to spend a whole afternoon buried in a book from the lending library , institutions which flourished mightily in the years between 1918 and 1945 and even somewhat later . |
| 17 | He and Hunt became Britain 's most famous racing partnership as the 42-year-old Peer spent a large chunk of his personal fortune setting up and maintaining the Hesketh team , whose Grand Prix cars sported a red , white and blue livery . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the driver spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the retired admiral spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 20 | Thus , children in our classroom practice sample spent a high proportion of their time working when they were engaged in tasks which involved talking to the class , talking to the teacher , construction , listening or collaboration . |
| 21 | The filming crew spent a full morning digging a suitably sized pit with a sloping ramp , filling it in again once the Dalek had been rolled into place . |
| 22 | Marrying the widowed sister of Henry I , he was created Earl of Huntingdon , and before becoming king spent a great deal of time in the land and company of his brother-in-law . |
| 23 | Tithonus spends a great deal of time in the poem reflecting on the past . |
| 24 | The Authority spent a good deal of time trying to persuade such Boards to avoid deficits by raising tariffs to remunerative levels , but commercial disciplines were inevitably weakened by such dual responsibility and ad hoc decisions . |
| 25 | In the old days , when Margaret Thatcher was still a chemist , and John Major was John Major-Ball , most MPs and many Ministers stayed away from the Party conferences , regarding it as a necessary vulgarity , an annual opportunity for the spear-carriers and party bit-players to travel to a seaside resort out of season to spend a few days in the proximity of the great . |
| 26 | The demands on the children are increased if the father spends a great deal of his leisure time with his men friends … |
| 27 | WHATEVER its origin , groundwater spends a long time in an aquifer . |
| 28 | He can usually take for granted initial student motivation , educational level and intelligence ; he is part of a system which already expects the student to spend a considerable proportion of his time in private study , and which usually provides at least minimal facilities for this to take place . |
| 29 | When the Labour Government called for cuts , local government spent a great deal more . |
| 30 | In 1978–9 the British government spent a modest £250,000 on research , including the development of climate models . |