Example sentences of "spends the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because until G C S E you are fed , the school is fed , in that you are told fairly quickly what you have to do and although I know that a number of you spends the right amount of time or a lot of time on homework , you are told usually , er you have erm a night or two nights in which to do this particular piece of work now once you get into the sixth form |
| 2 | Man is essentially a social being and spends the major part of each day communicating with other people in one way or another . |
| 3 | ‘ My dear , I must tell you , so amUsing ’ , one whispers to the other , ‘ Monsieur *** de *** , FAR from being happily married as everyone thought , apparently spends the ENTIRE time when he 's in London clad in very ODD lederhosen in some pizzeria opposite the Knightsbridge barracks picking up little leather boys . ’ |
| 4 | In ‘ Legal Highs ’ [ same issue ] , your reporter spends the whole evening discussing his [ legal ] ‘ drug intake ’ . |
| 5 | This yacht spends the whole year in the Caribbean . |
| 6 | He lives in a little castle , where he spends the whole day . |
| 7 | And the poor little nanny who spends the whole book upstairs crying for her dying father ? |