Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] spend [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young concert pianist had spent fewer hours reaching concert standard than he had spent achieving a mediocre amateur level . |
| 2 | It grieves me to say that the committee seemed to spend some time trying to denigrate the authority 's findings and to vindicate the tobacco industry . |
| 3 | Early on , after Waite 's capture , when he was still separated by a wall from the others , Anderson , who had at that point had spent 2,000 days in captivity , writes of Waite , ‘ I knew he was brave , risking his life for us . |
| 4 | Lily had been to dancing class — but so had Daisy and Ethel , just as all three at Dad 's especial wish had spent many hours learning the piano . |
| 5 | When an apprentice , after leaving school at thirteen , my father had spent several years as a striker — using a sledgehammer . |
| 6 | Children whose teachers rated their ability as average tended to spend less time on work and routine activities and more time distracted or awaiting attention than either those who were thought to be above average in ability or those who were rated as below average . |
| 7 | On the tenth day eight of the men on my course went to spend three days studying photography , four did locks and keys and seven went to study Roman Catholicism . |
| 8 | Kevin Jones , site manager for Wrexham-based RMG Engineering , said his firm had spent five months dismantling parts of the plant and in all 173 heavy loads destined for China would be moved from the doomed steelworks over the next two weeks . |
| 9 | But Folly had spent twenty-three years being told that she rushed into things too fast , and she was n't about to let it get to her now . |
| 10 | The ship had spent eight days searching for a port in which to dock , and had been refused permission to dock by the Aden port authorities on June 19 . |
| 11 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
| 12 | Peter Evans , the first non-family chairman to be appointed to the liqueur company when he joined late last year , said yesterday that the company had spent considerable time evaluating its needs in the light of its decision to focus on its core business , the production of Drambuie Liqueur . |
| 13 | It had been a well-known fact that their last medical officer had spent little time studying new methods of health and safety and accident prevention and there had been an ever-present air of friction between himself and Ron Banks . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister had spent 10 years trying to destroy the human spirit in Britain , but ‘ she has failed because we in this movement are not going to allow her ’ . |
| 15 | The effect is qualitatively and psychologically different : those with discretionary spending power continued to spend last time . |