Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] spend [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorenzo Semple Jr came in to spend six weeks writing three quick drafts to create the character for Dustin — the wimpish , thickly bespectacled Louis Dega , ‘ the best counterfeiter in France ’ , who did not exist in the Charrière book . |
| 2 | From Gibraltar , we went on to spend two days at Fuengirola . |
| 3 | They chose instead to spend large sums of money on the farms , rebuilt the famous Orangery and installed a large indoor swimming pool in the courtyard . |
| 4 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 5 | She revelled in the benefits of being married to the Queen 's second son and did not spend enough time on her duties . |
| 6 | They were ill-informed in the sense that the conceptual basis for understanding such meaning was not carefully theorised , as well as in the more obvious sense that the travellers often simply did not know the language and did not spend enough time living in a particular society . |
| 7 | He tried to persuade his master to be stricter with the children , and was always complaining that Heathcliff and Catherine did not spend enough time studying the Bible or attending church services . |
| 8 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 9 | But he did n't spend much time here . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I did n't spend much time in Trob . |
| 11 | Please feel free to comment , I did n't spend much time on it and I 've still got that bloody hangover ! ! |
| 12 | It was possible , she conceded , that Guy Sterne did n't spend twenty-four hours a day , three hundred and sixty-five days a year ruthlessly tearing apart other people 's livelihoods . |
| 13 | You did n't spend any time at all with Kafy last time you were here . ’ |
| 14 | Richard Baxter had only spent nine months in Dudley when he accepted an invitation to Bridgnorth as Curate to the Vicar , Mr.Madstart , whom he describes as a ‘ good preacher and a most excellent minister ’ . |
| 15 | Shadwell had obviously spent many weekends on the Continent observing European theatre . |
| 16 | ‘ Hamish ’ Hamilton , a Scot , had already spent six months on the island but had volunteered to stay on until the new squadron ( 185 ) was settled in . |
| 17 | By the time I started my NDD I had already spent five years at art school . |
| 18 | He had already spent much time on the hotel telephone to Scotland Yard . |
| 19 | At their age she had already spent four years working in her uncle 's shop . |
| 20 | Bush formally announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination on Feb. 12 — he had already spent several days informally campaigning in New Hampshire in January — to a cheering crowd of supporters in Washington DC . |
| 21 | I said not to spend any money , I said just get a little box of chocolates , that was all , finish . |
| 22 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 23 | This was similar to the proportion receiving help from district and other nurses among those who had not spent any time in such homes once sudden deaths and those who had spent all their last year in hospital have been excluded . |
| 24 | Jones had already used a variety of materials , one of which was palladium , and was preparing to obtain the final proof with his detector that he had just spent two years building . |
| 25 | He had just spent seven years in Spain as papal nuncio and made the acquaintance of Caldéron ; the setting is Spanish and the romantic element is stronger . |
| 26 | Hatta was assisted by another Holland-returned politician , Sutan Sjahrir , who had also spent several years in the Netherlands and become an admirer of the Dutch Socialist movement . |
| 27 | In Angola and Mozambique , there are strange creatures called ‘ Marxist-Leninist States ’ when Marx and Lenin had both spent much time denouncing the State as intrinsically oppressive , but the media mean no more by this phrase than radical nationalists . |
| 28 | We had both spent three days and nights at the hospital the previous week . |
| 29 | This meant actually producing and maintaining a series of questions directed at the CEGB 's expert witnesses , most of whom had clearly spent many hours going through every conceivable pitfall . |
| 30 | We had now spent three weeks at Aubagne and had seen detachments move off to Castelnaudary , and numerous people rejected . |