Example sentences of "[vb past] not spend [adj] [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | You did n't spend any time at all with Kafy last time you were here . ’ |
| 11 | I said not to spend any money , I said just get a little box of chocolates , that was all , finish . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It was an expensive book too , though fortunately I had n't spent any money on it . |
| 15 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |