Example sentences of "[vb past] spend [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd spent her free morning on board the Kestrel , with Penny and Devlin , saying goodbye before they left . |
| 2 | And so were all those so-called friends of hers who seemed to spend their entire lives going to parties . |
| 3 | We returned to spend our last night on the top floor of the now abandoned community house , in what was now the distinctly eerie Rante . |
| 4 | Feeling really invigorated I decided to spend my remaining time in the gym and let those machines really know that I meant business ! |
| 5 | Nor did they greatly care how he chose to spend his spare time in Vienna . |
| 6 | After she died the heart-broken husband gave Woodford Lodge , Northamptonshire , where Harriett had spent her married life , to his son by his first wife , and went to live with Wellington . |
| 7 | Dolle had spent her entire life obsessed with but ill-used by men . |
| 8 | She stood there a moment , looking out across the pre-dawn darkness of the spaceport , barely conscious of the passengers pushing by , knowing that this was probably the last view she would ever have of City Europe — the City in which she had spent her whole life . |
| 9 | A few weeks ago , she had spent her eighteenth birthday in a drug-induced coma , with her back opened up as durium shieldlinks were laid around her spine . |
| 10 | Cameron and Parkes ( 1983 ) cite , by way of example , the death of a woman who had spent her last weekend at home with her husband discussing plans for the future while sitting in the sun to regain her strength . |
| 11 | She had spent her last sixpence on the tea . |
| 12 | She had kept her looks and her health , and had spent her free time productively with a variety of projects and committees . |
| 13 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 14 | When he offered to buy her a house in Blackpool , her request was for a simple terrace house , similar to the one in which they had spent their early life together . |
| 15 | Using the most fundamental measure of poverty , the " breadline " , Professor Hay has estimated that over the years 1760 to 1802 in a normal year around 10 per cent of Staffordshire families would have been unable to buy sufficient bread over the year even if they had spent their whole earnings on it . |
| 16 | Although the argument appeared innocuous , in a country which had spent its entire existence on the alert against a possible attack from communist North Korea , and which had erected a National Security Law prohibiting communist activity on pain of death or long-term imprisonment , the suggestion generated a deluge of criticism . |
| 17 | He had spent his early years as a priest in the papal service under Pius X , whom he canonized . |
| 18 | He had spent his early years in a largely English-speaking community at Port Sudan where his father was a shipping agent ( hence the acquired Dennis , his real name is derived from Dionysus ) . |
| 19 | A boy from the " cow town " of Abilene in Kansas , " Ike " had spent his entire career as a professional soldier . |
| 20 | But it was Arsenal , where Chapman had spent his longest period as manager , who held the limelight in the last years of peace . |
| 21 | Walford , a charcoal-burner who had spent his solitary life in a woodland shelter built of poles and turf , was remembered by Tom Poole as a man ‘ remarkable for good temper and generosity ’ , but one who also possessed ‘ ardent feelings and strong passions ’ . |
| 22 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 23 | They could hope to learn later where Berowne had spent his last day on earth . |
| 24 | Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day . |
| 25 | He had spent his last years under effective house arrest at his home in Kufa . |
| 26 | In dramatic Saunderson fashion , Llewellyn declared he was finished with Ireland and left to spend his later years travelling Europe , the young and lovely Olive in tow . |