Example sentences of "[coord] spent [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was arrested and spent twelve hours in Clark County jail . |
| 2 | Early in the 1950s , Richard Titmuss pointed out that the average working class woman marrying in her teens or early twenties during the 1890s experienced ten pregnancies and spent fifteen years in pregnancy and nursing compared with an average of four years so spent by her counterpart in the years following World War II . |
| 3 | I had read many scientific books and spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug . |
| 4 | I trained as a physicist and spent many years in laser research , first in Canada and then at the NPL in Teddington . |
| 5 | She knocked off at half-past four when Nutty got home , and spent two hours in the bathroom getting herself ready to go out , which she did every night of the week . |
| 6 | Bored , I ran away from Downside when I was sixteen and spent two days in Paris , sleeping rough , before hitch-hiking home . |
| 7 | After the war , he joined the Colonial Administrative Service and spent two years in Palestine before serving six years as political officer and assistant secretary in the then Protectorate and Colony of Aden . |
| 8 | He was up and dressed every day , and spent each evening in the corner of the public bar with a pint pot in front of him , keeping a benevolent eye on the satisfied customers . |
| 9 | For reasons not apparent he had become a reformed character : he worked diligently and spent long hours in the laboratory . |
| 10 | During the period of his studies , he was laid low by tuberculosis , and spent long periods in the sanatorium undergoing treatment . |
| 11 | In 1790 Rushout visited Italy and spent eight years in Rome between 1792 and 1800 as an attaché to the ambassador to the king of Naples . |
| 12 | Although one of the sons suffered severe injuries such as a black eye and damage to his kidney and spent 5 days in hospital it took the police over 6 weeks to decide whether to charge anyone . |
| 13 | Early in the new year , Joan Waters went into hospital and spent five months in it . |
| 14 | Kristy , of Park Road , Barnston , was born in Jamaica and spent 10 years in Malawi before coming to Britain . |
| 15 | She joined Nationwide in 1972 and spent 12 years in the studio . |
| 16 | So far , he 's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution . |
| 17 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |
| 18 | He left in 1803 without taking a degree and spent three years in a Wiltshire militia regiment . |
| 19 | Having suffered a breakdown , she gave up her job in 1907 and spent some time in Sussex . |
| 20 | During his first period in Spain he fell seriously and mysteriously ill , and spent some time in hospital . |
| 21 | In 1918 he was shot in the knee while on a bombing raid and spent some time in hospital before being awarded an army scholarship , which enabled him to complete his studies at the City and Guilds College , London . |
| 22 | No later Turkish author really deals with the problem except Ismail Belig , who , in his article on Molla Yegan , states that the latter succeeded Molla Fenari as muderris at the Manastir medrese in 771/1369–70 and as kadi of Bursa in 822/1419 when Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage and spent some time in Egypt on his return . |
| 23 | ‘ And spent some time in an institution ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ She was over here for the Isle of Man TT Races and spent some time in the Lake District . |
| 25 | He had lost his job and spent some time in bail hostels in Darlington and Northallerton . |
| 26 | Sid Boyling and I joined forces that year on a holiday to New York , and spent some days in Toronto , en route , visiting the Canadian National Exhibition . |
| 27 | He was caught by the Germans and spent seven months in a prisoner of war camp before being freed and returning to continue his army career , retiring as a captain in 1955 . |
| 28 | Dr Mitch Grigoriu received a BSc(Hons) and MSc in Engineering , and spent seven years in industry , working for the Weber Carburettors Group . |
| 29 | Rhee joined the Independence Club soon after his conversion to Christianity ; he was arrested and spent seven years in prison . |
| 30 | Following worker demonstrations in 1970 he was elected chairman of the workshop strike committee and spent several days in detention . |