Example sentences of "spend [pron] [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Oval Office may be occupied by a self-confessed non-inhaler ; half the members of the cabinet may have marched against the Vietnam war ; and the first and second ladies may spend their spare time grooving to the Grateful Dead . |
| 2 | Though I spent my outdoor time playing any game I could , from cricket , tennis , football or boxing at the local gym , all my indoor time was spent buried in books . |
| 3 | Nevertheless she spent her spare time preparing for his possible return , practising singing the songs he used to like , tears rolling down her cheeks all the while . |
| 4 | These readers designed , and then spent their spare time building this fabulous bungalow , complete with swimming pool and a large garden pond . |
| 5 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 6 | He was indeed a carpenter , and spent his spare time carving small wooden toys for his children . |
| 7 | She has spent her free time researching the book and is now looking for a publisher . |
| 8 | Beeneys wife is a football fanatic and spends her spare time studying old match videos . |
| 9 | Beth Archer , a photography student , spends her free time photographing the natural world of Raintree Wood . |
| 10 | If you are a keen gardener or have done any fund-raising or interesting travelling , for example , you will appear a more attractive candidate than someone who simply spends their spare time slumped in front of the television . |
| 11 | And he had no inclination to spend his off-duty time working in the jam factory that ran cheek by jowl with the camp ; he was n't in need of extra money . |
| 12 | John Fletcher , who spends his spare time stargazing , photographed comet Swift Tuttle — an object which some astronomers fear may collide with the earth on it 's next visit . |
| 13 | He 's a psychotic with some kind of death wish … spends his entire time screaming abuse . |
| 14 | One year they 've got long hair and spend their spare time reading Marx , the next they 're shorn like sheep and as conservative as hell . |
| 15 | Now there is a committee of five and like Jim , all are volunteers who spend their free time organising football for the local kids . |
| 16 | Perhaps touts spend their free time mugging old ladies and fencing stolen cars . |
| 17 | She imagined the young doctor coming to this simple village , the home of his grandmother , to build his business empire , getting to know and love the villagers as he did so , and deciding to live with them and spend his spare time caring for them as a doctor . |
| 18 | Sometimes I get confused between work and socialising , especially when we spend our off-duty time discussing what we did on duty . |