Example sentences of "[pers pn] spend [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I spent my outdoor time playing any game I could , from cricket , tennis , football or boxing at the local gym , all my indoor time was spent buried in books . |
| 2 | He does n't approve of the way I spend my free time . |
| 3 | In the early 1920s , while working as a bilingual secretary in Westminster , she spent her spare time training in the Thames to become a long-distance swimmer , accompanied by a hired oarsman in a boat . |
| 4 | Nevertheless she spent her spare time preparing for his possible return , practising singing the songs he used to like , tears rolling down her cheeks all the while . |
| 5 | Ms Streisand , in the same paper , claimed that the press would be happier if she spent her free time shopping , and pointed out , quite fairly , that she and the others at the correspondents ' dinner had been invited there . |
| 6 | I would n't like you to spend your entire time here without having done so , so I thought a short wander beneath the trees before we join Matt at the landing place would be in order . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes I get confused between work and socialising , especially when we spend our off-duty time discussing what we did on duty . |
| 8 | He spent his early time with the company in personnel and from 1976 moved into the textiles side of the business . |
| 9 | He never brought his friends to the house and she had never known where he spent his spare time . |
| 10 | Inspector of Ancient Monuments , will give an illustrated talk on the 18th-century British soldier at home and how he spent his spare time . |
| 11 | Another friend of mine spends her whole time , since her retirement , experimenting with different recipes . |