Example sentences of "[coord] he spent [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Roy had thrown away his script , and he spent an anxious plane journey trying to remember his lines . |
| 2 | During the first World War Hamilton served with the Coldstream Guards ( he stood just on 6ft ) and he spent the latter part of his service at Caterham Barracks from where he signed for Palace when he was ‘ demobbed ’ in December 1922 . |
| 3 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 4 | His new wife was a Parisian and he spent the last eight years of his life in Paris , where he continued to practise until he died in 1843 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 7 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 8 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |
| 9 | Alejandro was so staggered by Fantasma 's progress that he decided to waive his prejudice against greys ; not so much that he was prepared to get on her back , but he spent a considerable time wondering how he could flog Fantasma to a rich patron without them finding out how vicious and unmanageable the mare could be when she was away from Luke . |