Example sentences of "[pers pn] spent [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 2 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 3 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 4 | ‘ I spent two years in a psikhushka , ’ he replied curtly . |
| 5 | ‘ You see , I spent two years in Russia , and I know a little about Siberian Magic . |
| 6 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 7 | I spent two years in Washington trying to be a surgeon , but I could n't settle in the States . ’ |
| 8 | In the end , I spent two afternoons in a central gaol ( the highest category of prison , intended primarily for long-termers ) in a major town in the south of India . |
| 9 | I spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug . |
| 10 | I was slightly built , and although I hated team sports and games , I spent much time in the school gym doing circuit training and fitness programmes . |
| 11 | I spent much time in that area and I know that brighter things are on the horizon for Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 12 | ‘ I spent much time in the States when I was a girl . |
| 13 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 14 | I spent that night in a straitjacket of fear . |
| 15 | And then I spent six months in Peterborough doing paediatrics , erm working in the special care unit with all the premature babies with incubators and not fluffy hot water bottles |
| 16 | Ian from Earlsbury , I spent fourteen years in the air force , bull bullying has always gone on but only when soldiers did n't conform . |
| 17 | In April–May 1991 I spent 5 weeks in Japan , part of the time as a visiting teacher at Kyoto University . |
| 18 | I spent nine years in Hi-Fi retail and always coached my staff to talk to our customers — their queries , desires and interests were our life blood . |
| 19 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
| 20 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 21 | In July of this year , along with the overseas director Mike Arrinson , I spent seven days in Bangladesh . |
| 22 | I spent some hours in a newspaper office getting nothing , not even any change , out of an understrapper who had learnt his English in Enfield , and wondering less and less intermittently what time the public parks shut . |
| 23 | During the summer of 1971 , soon after the ‘ discovery ’ , for the second time , of my disability , I spent some time in hospital . |
| 24 | You may remember I spent some time in Paris — not the most pleasant of times freezing in the snow , chased by wolves and being half-hanged at Montfaucon . |
| 25 | I spent some time in discussion in Oman , not about the minesweepers but about the much more valuable corvette order that the Omanis are seeking to place , and I was given very satisfactory assurances by His Majesty the Sultan about those orders . |
| 26 | I spent some time in Japan . |
| 27 | I spent three months in the Canaries , and since then I 've been travelling between England and Ireland . |
| 28 | This failed and I spent three days in a state of constant terror before my ( surprisingly ! ) safe arrival in Ladakh . |
| 29 | I spent three days in Holloway on remand . |
| 30 | I spent three years in Vienna as a student . |