Example sentences of "[pers pn] spend [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I spent one of the most delightful and instructive ( or constructive ? ) six weeks of my life . |
| 2 | I spent six of the happiest years of my life at a boarding school where the regime was spartan . |
| 3 | My wife Suzie and I spent some of the cash having an extension put on our house in Willesden and it was also around that time that our children started at private school . |
| 4 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 5 | I spent most of the intervening period in the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 6 | Ian and I spent most of the night before at the window , terrified we would be asleep when Jake called ; but we must have slept , because we were awakened by the sound of stones rattling against the window . |
| 7 | I spent most of the War in the United States though my husband , Robert , saw active service in North Africa . |
| 8 | I spent most of the day staring at the walls and ceiling and wondering when the next meal would come . |
| 9 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |
| 10 | He read English at Cambridge — ‘ actually I spent most of the time reading opera ’ and went on to become one of the first crop of the Arts Council 's pioneering Arts Administration course , which was ‘ a bit Heath Robinsonish then , but still a wonderful grounding ’ . |
| 11 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 12 | I spent most of the journey wondering why Annie Lennox could make ‘ girl ’ rhyme with ‘ thrill ’ but nobody else could . |
| 13 | Like most of the Leeds fans at Maine Road , I spent most of the second half with my hands on my head groaning in disbelief . |
| 14 | I spend most of the day in there , splashing and wallowing with the delight of a five-year-old . |
| 15 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 16 | Drawn to India by her spiritual and political interests , she spent much of the rest of her life there . |
| 17 | Partly because she spent much of the day alone in the house painting , she welcomed company in the evenings and would press Rodrigo into more visits to Soho than he wished to make . |
| 18 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 19 | Because the weather was raw and foggy she spent most of the intervening hours in a nearby house , which had been commandeered by the army for the use of resident and non-resident FANY drivers . |
| 20 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 21 | She spent most of the next day with her mother , but left before her father was due home , having checked that Ace was at his flat in London . |
| 22 | Luiza , who was always very happy singing Czipra as she spent most of the evening sitting on a gypsy log , had been in superb voice and Therese — Busacher gloated — Therese had made one or two of the more discerning wonder what she was going to do in some of the other productions . |
| 23 | ‘ Have n't you spent most of the morning proving that ? ’ |
| 24 | She spends much of the opera in disguise , first as a ‘ doctor ’ who ‘ revives ’ the Albanians ( who have pretended to kill themselves when rejected ) by means of an enormous magnet ( thanks to Dr Mesmer ) , and then as the notary who is to perform the marriage ceremony . |
| 25 | Retired tennis champion Chris Evert also has a home at the Polo Club , where she spends most of the year . |
| 26 | We sat in desks for two , in classes of about thirty , and we spent most of the day in those rows of desks . |
| 27 | We spent most of the time on the planet acid : the best place for us to be . |
| 28 | We spent most of the time on the Thames and Medway keeping observations on shipping . |
| 29 | Apart from offices , we spent most of the time outside . |
| 30 | They spent much of the war running a hostel in North Kensington . |