Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] spending [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We asked people to keep a diary of what they were doing and to fill in this diary every half an hour , saying where they were , who they were with and what they were doing , and we were able to see erm first of all that the range of people that you meet decreases when you 're unemployed , that you 're actually spending more time alone , less time with friends and other people . |
| 2 | Thank you Mr chairman , just one point Mr , we 're not voting ourselves five percent more , we 're taking five percent off next year 's allowance and putting it to this one so it 's a negative rollover , so we 're actually spending some of next year 's money this year . |
| 3 | But that 's only in the first year , in the second year erm the percentage will reduce quite rapidly and we 're only spending half the second and third years . |
| 4 | By 1744 he was already spending some of his time in London , where Dodsley was his publisher . |
| 5 | Bent almost double , he was still spending forty hours a week gardening for the new owners of The Grange . |