Example sentences of "spent [art] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | The troubled defence and electronics group has spent the week in talks a clutch of potential bidders . |
| 2 | He had spent the week driving back and forth between Blackburn and Southampton where his wife gave birth last Monday to their first child . |
| 3 | Any woman who has not spent the week in either a coma or the cupboard-under-the-stairs will know this . |
| 4 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 5 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 6 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 7 | After Elinor had spent a week in the nursing home , Annabel and Miranda were allowed to visit . |
| 8 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 9 | Forester could simply melt away and leave the area , but his own freedom was n't his main concern ; he 'd already spent a week away from Cumbria , and he had a sick fear of returning to find the clinic ruins empty and the valley returned to placid normality . |
| 10 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 11 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 12 | The French and Italians have already spent a week in Scotland looking at developments in work-based learning here , and visits to France , Germany and Italy will follow shortly . |
| 13 | The first ceasefire to be brokered by the UN rather than the EC was negotiated in Geneva and came into force on Nov. 23 , after Vance had spent a week monitoring the situation in Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | He 'd never have spent a week milksopping around this godforsaken backwater on account of — one little bag of bones . ’ |
| 15 | He said it demanded an immediate custodial sentence , but as Spencer was of previous good character and had already spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence , he made the community service order . |