Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] spend [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CW reported spending 2 days per week on user support in February and March , and stressed need for action . |
| 2 | Recently , one of the Orandas started to spend long spells at the water surface . |
| 3 | She was taking a gamble , already Hari had spent precious time and materials making footwear that might never be bought and paid for . |
| 4 | Lord Mountbatten had spent ten years tirelessly promoting the dream , talking about it all over the world , often in the highest places , inspiring everyone around him and shamelessly raising money to build more colleges . |
| 5 | They settled in England after Frits had spent many years serving in the Dutch Merchant Navy . |
| 6 | Considering all the insupportable things which Wheeler had spent twenty minutes saying to him , he felt remarkably calm . |
| 7 | In those days also the boats were unchanged since Vincent Van Gogh had spent one week there in June 1888 and had painted them , red and blue , green and yellow , with coloured delicate masts erect , and the slanted , tapering yard-arms crossing each other on the pale mackerel sky . |
| 8 | As his course of study at the School of Architecture , University of Manchester , demanded a period of practical training in an architect 's office , William Assheton decided to spend this time working in Coventry so that in his spare time he could design and supervise the conversion of the chapel into a dwelling for his own use . |
| 9 | The manner of his election was dubious in the extreme ; Gallus had spent much time at the court of Theuderic , but at the time of Quintianus 's death he was in Clermont ; while the citizens were trying to decide on a new candidate the Holy Spirit descended on Gallus , according to his relative Gregory , and on the advice of his uncle Inpetratus he set off and presented himself to Theuderic , who authorized his consecration . |
| 10 | Throughout his childhood , Matthew can recall feeling angry just once — when his father unwittingly trod on a model boat which Matthew had spent several weeks constructing . |
| 11 | Coleridge had spent three weeks in Oxford before , on 5 July 1794 , he finally set off on his Welsh expedition , promising Southey that he would rejoin him later to make further plans for settling in America . |
| 12 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 13 | Will began to spend more time in Stratford , because it was quiet there , and he could do his writing . |
| 14 | Teams of officials from Britain , Hong Kong and China had spent five days haggling over the many points of disagreement left over from the visit of Douglas Hurd , the British foreign secretary , to China last month . |
| 15 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 16 | Young had spent all day here , moseying between the three-room Mayfair hotel suite , talking for 40 minutes at a time to every journalist lined up to see him . |
| 17 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |
| 18 | Although Linnaeus had spent four days at Chelsea in July , when the plants in the Garden were perfect , he had concentrated on dried plants — this to Miller was unforgiveable . |
| 19 | Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state . |
| 20 | But the words came out just as if Garvey had spent all morning thinking about them . |
| 21 | Nathan had spent 122 days in prison in 1990 for meeting PLO officials , and had subsequently staged a 40-day hunger strike in protest against the law . |
| 22 | Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an . |
| 23 | Against Darwin 's five years in Beagle , Wallace had spent four years exploring the Amazon basin , followed by eight years , largely alone , travelling throughout the Indonesian islands expressly seeking a solution to the evolutionary divergence of species . |
| 24 | AI Japan had spent several years planning the ICM , and Asia , s hosting of the event was appropriate in view of the organisation 's commitment to developing AI in that region . |
| 25 | Gay had spent that afternoon writing hard ; the story was going well , she said , and she was in high spirits . |
| 26 | It was rather as though Attlee or Macmillan had spent post-war autumn holidays at Saratoga Springs while eschewing any contact with the United Nations in New York . |
| 27 | President Jimmy Carter had spent New Years Eve 1977–78 with him and praised him extravagantly . |
| 28 | The Leeds tribunal heard that Mr Onyett had spent 25 years working with ethnic minorities . |
| 29 | Newman had spent three days at the hotel in Walberswick — mainly to attend the inquest but also to soothe Evelyn as far as he could . |
| 30 | With the arrival of Stephen Rowlinson as London Managing Director in May 1985 , total staff were reduced from 42 to 24 , and consultants were replaced , mostly by other McKinsey people : Rowlinson had spent seven years with McKinsey and had been CEO of a group of manufacturing companies . |