Example sentences of "spend a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course we only spend a minority of our time actually teaching . |
| 2 | spend a while looking after them you know . |
| 3 | In the third year , students spend a total of eight months of approved study abroad in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries . |
| 4 | He decided to stop over in Paris and spend a couple of days following a similar route . |
| 5 | The plan is to go to Llandovery and spend a couple of hours meeting members of HOWLTA , to be informed of campaigns to improve services on the line . |
| 6 | just spend a couple of minutes now and jot down what it is you would like to get out of this course by tomorrow afternoon what you would like to say you 've achieved on this course . |
| 7 | However , there is an even stronger reason given in James 4:13 and 14 : ‘ Now listen , you who say , ‘ Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city , spend a year there , carry on business and make money . ’ |
| 8 | In an interview in 1983 Bishop Peter said : ‘ I have a house full of young people who spend a year with me praying and working in the community to get closer to God , and I let them impinge on my ministry . |
| 9 | Spend a year in Holland and earn an MBA |
| 10 | I know some people say it takes time , but I think if you spend a year producing a lamb it is nice to see it sold and you do the best you can for it . |
| 11 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 12 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 13 | The banks spend a fortune advertising themselves on television . |
| 14 | We spend a fortune on giving our cats and dogs the good life . |
| 15 | Before finishing each room , just spend a minute thinking about your furniture and how it will fit in . |
| 16 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 17 | Each animal must make an Ld test or else spend a turn rearing , whinnying , and refusing to move . |
| 18 | Spend a day at NEWENT , the delightful market town on the northern borders of the Royal Forest of Dean , close to Gloucester and the M50 , with its half timbered market house and lakeside walks . |
| 19 | Spend a day creating beautiful displays at our one-day workshop . |
| 20 | Spend a day birdwatching |
| 21 | The lucky winners will be ‘ arrested ’ by police and spend a day at Armley prison , Leeds . |
| 22 | The winning bidder will be ‘ arrested ’ by police and spend a day at Armley jail , Leeds , whose young offenders wing was closed down because of a spate of suicides . |
| 23 | I was fed up after weeks of playing deck quoits and shuffleboard , and the Mantela appeared to be the perfect introduction to the South Seas for , instead of going straight to Sanderstown , she would call at Rarotonga , and spend a day or two there , so I would be able to fit in a visit to another island and see something of it at a leisurely pace . |
| 24 | Before taking the overnight express train to Luxor , spend a day in Cairo at your leisure . |
| 25 | Then it was arranged that Hoare should on the way spend a day or so in Paris talking to Laval , who was temporarily Prime Minister as well as Foreign Minister of France . |
| 26 | Spend a day in the tropical forest of South America , turning over logs , looking beneath bark , sifting through the moist litter of leaves , followed by an evening shining a mercury lamp on a white screen , and one way and another you will collect hundreds of different kinds of small creatures . |
| 27 | " Go off and spend a day with him . " |
| 28 | Those of us who did carry on with the flight , masochistically addicted to the hellish aimlessness of it , were obliged to leave at New Delhi , and spend a day selling brightly coloured scarves and small gold elephants on a souvenir stall . |
| 29 | And Mick chatting to Jenny about what we can expect over the next few weeks , as we spend a day in the life . |
| 30 | 4 Spend a day drawing and sketching on Carn Brea with local artist Stuart Ross . |