Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] spend [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She revelled in the benefits of being married to the Queen 's second son and did not spend enough time on her duties . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But he did n't spend much time here . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I did n't spend much time in Trob . |
| 8 | Please feel free to comment , I did n't spend much time on it and I 've still got that bloody hangover ! ! |
| 9 | You did n't spend any time at all with Kafy last time you were here . ’ |
| 10 | Shadwell had obviously spent many weekends on the Continent observing European theatre . |
| 11 | He had already spent much time on the hotel telephone to Scotland Yard . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I said not to spend any money , I said just get a little box of chocolates , that was all , finish . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It was an expensive book too , though fortunately I had n't spent any money on it . |
| 20 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
| 21 | There was a loud echo in the grounds of Wyvis Hall , Mary 's scream ringing back from off the wood and walls and starry waters , and Rufus , a town dweller who had never spent much time in the countryside , expected alarmed or annoyed people to arrive or the disconnected phone to start shrilling with complaints . |
| 22 | ‘ I ended up spending all night watching porn videos with them in Hounslow , ’ she trilled . |
| 23 | He was suffering from whiplash and ended up spending several weeks with his neck in a collar . |