Example sentences of "[pers pn] spend [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 2 | Shortly before moving to London , I spent a few days visiting ancient and mystical sites in Cornwall . |
| 3 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
| 4 | As a soldier stationed on the South Coast at the time of D- Day , I spent a few days in London where I attended the Proms . |
| 5 | I spent an entire day putting them back , watching that face , hundreds of years old , come to life . ’ |
| 6 | I spent an exhilarating day cruising the River Ord , speeding through spectacular scenery in a high-powered boat . |
| 7 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 8 | She spent every fine day sitting in a chair just outside her front door . |
| 9 | I always remember him being asked why a chap with his responsibility spent his evenings with people like Jill St John and he replied , ‘ Well , if you spent the whole day with Indira Ghandi you do n't want to spend the night with Golda Meir … . ’ |
| 10 | I well remember our first night with the aid of father-in-law we spent a long day moving ourselves in . |
| 11 | From Ottawa we spent a memorable day in Prescott where the club was celebrating its centenary . |
| 12 | We spent a few days talking about our friends in Moscow and Leningrad . |
| 13 | ‘ We spent a few days on manoeuvres . |
| 14 | We spent the following day on the far bank of the river in a paradise of guava orchards and banana groves . |
| 15 | We spent the first day climbing on Anglesey 's big sea cliffs to prove that we could climb at an extreme level . |
| 16 | We spent the first day getting over the long flight ( though with only three hours time difference there was no appreciable jet-lag ) and having a look round the town . |
| 17 | We spent the next day lolling round Hampton Court . |
| 18 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 19 | They spent a whole day placing the furniture . |
| 20 | For the final tape a small production team of seven from the two schools was formed and they spent an extra day on this activity . |
| 21 | Every week their sleep was rationed on two nights to between 0 and 7.5 hours , and they spent the subsequent days being tested in the laboratory on vigilance and adding tasks . |
| 22 | They hauled Tommy out of class and forced him to spend a whole day alone in a tiny punishment room . |
| 23 | In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory . |
| 24 | He spent the first day in bed , after going to the Chinese takeaway to make sure he did n't starve . |
| 25 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 26 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 27 | Ian said he spent the whole day walking around with a daft grin on his face . |
| 28 | As I said to Kay it 's Terry that does all , he gets the money in , he pays all the bills , Muriel brings him the bills , I said he does all that apart from the fact I said he spent the whole day yesterday , the whole morning yesterday here clearing this , oh she said I did as well , erm you know help , I said what you , but as well as clearing |
| 29 | He spent an uncomfortable day surrounded by burly miners threatening to smash his Dansette with baseball bats every time he put on another part from the ‘ Ring Cycle ’ . |
| 30 | He lives in a little castle , where he spends the whole day . |