Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to spend a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Dad 's away on business again tomorrow and I want to spend a bit of time with him before he goes . |
| 2 | On the way to Ruritania I decided to spend a night in Paris with a friend . |
| 3 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 4 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 5 | I was ready to fulfil the condition of my having the operation : I had to spend a year ‘ passing ’ as a male in stereotypical working-class jobs . |
| 6 | I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking . |
| 7 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 8 | In fact , I have to spend a lot of my time asking silly questions of people while standing in all sorts of silly places . |
| 9 | In the other … you might just as well try to go to sleep when your feet are cold or you want to spend a penny , or you 're hungry for a special kind of food you have n't got . |
| 10 | We 've got something for you , whether you want to spend a lot , or just a little . |
| 11 | As I say , Well you 've you 've to spend a lot of time . |
| 12 | There is a myth that ribbon cables are difficult to make and you have to spend a fortune on getting cables specially made . |
| 13 | This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads . |
| 14 | successful showcases can create substantial industry interest in a band , but if you are going to pull out all the stops , you have to spend a lot of money with no guarantee of a positive result . |
| 15 | The amount of points you can spend on characters is restricted and you need to spend a lot of points on Bosses and Big Bosses to accompany your Mobs . |
| 16 | In general we find that , for a very small increase in , for example , wages , we tend to spend a lot more , proportionately , on holidays . |
| 17 | We hope to spend a lot of our time there . |
| 18 | We had to spend a night off the approaches to the West Solent and Poole as a result of information about local fishing boats coopering . |
| 19 | we had to spend a couple of years erm longer at school . |
| 20 | It was only in the beginning , when we needed money badly , when we had to spend a lot on the house . ’ |
| 21 | We have to spend a lot of time learning the limitations of the amplifier versus the guitar we 're using , and the microphones and console … ’ |
| 22 | This year , we plan to spend a record £120 million on exploration programmes in 13 countries and a further £180 million on developing new fields . |
| 23 | After qualifying in 1986 he decided to spend a couple of years working outside the profession to gain experience in merchant banking or venture capital . |
| 24 | So off he went to spend a day with people or institutions that embodied the very best our country has to offer . |
| 25 | Even so , he managed to spend a Sunday sailing in a friend 's boat , had met a potter who was throwing a dinner service for him ( ‘ will you phone my father and ask him if he wants a coffee set as well ? ’ ) and had found ‘ some beautiful corduroys . |
| 26 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |