Example sentences of "spend [pron] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent his early time with the company in personnel and from 1976 moved into the textiles side of the business . |
| 2 | We need to ask ourselves how LEA advisers should be spending their increased time in schools , bearing in mind that due to the ratio of schools to inspectors , the time spent in any one school will still not be generous . |
| 3 | Mr Crowley has already spent his allotted time in Hartlepool where he was amazed to find hundreds of yachts moored in the marina . |
| 4 | Her partner 's passionate hobby was shooting , and she knew from their telephone calls that he had been spending his spare time at a sports club which had a range . |
| 5 | Feeling really invigorated I decided to spend my remaining time in the gym and let those machines really know that I meant business ! |
| 6 | We will both retire around May and I hope to spend my free time on my hobby , photography . ’ |
| 7 | Each had to rely on the support and goodwill of his partners to be able to spend their entire time on the case of the South Ronaldsay children . |
| 8 | In this group of 27 respondents , only two specifically noted that they were able to spend their full time on training , another two did not offer any estimate of time , and a further two indicated that their time plus their assistant 's time equalled one full-time post . |
| 9 | Training officers who noted that they were able to spend their full time on training were very rare , although it was noted in Chapter 4 that a training officer or more ‘ training officer time ’ was the most commonly wanted further ‘ resource ’ to expand or develop existing training programmes . |
| 10 | people who work together tend to spend their non-work time with persons from the same industry . |
| 11 | Clockwise from top left : Masha hopes modelling will bring her money ; queues form quickly after rumours of new supplies ; a farmer selling her produce ; Larissa ( left ) , spends her spare time in food queues ; career success for Natalya means she can pay someone to queue for her ; Svetlana is a fashion designer with no materials . |
| 12 | Nor did they greatly care how he chose to spend his spare time in Vienna . |
| 13 | David had this little compartment and used to spend his whole time in a Japanese kimono with his guitar and a bottle of this horrible Reisling wine that was full of alkaline and gave you splitting headaches , but it was all there was . |
| 14 | The fact that you have been able to spend your whole time on the core of the question is itself some indication that the question was not intended to have any wider scope . |
| 15 | Some spend their entire time in the water , mating and giving birth to live young in the sea . |
| 16 | The students had no room in which to wait between lectures , but it was suggested to MRCVS that students who lodged near enough might go home if they wanted to , or more usefully spend their non-lecture time in the dissecting room or in the stables , although the Bell & Crown inn , with a good fire , was close at hand . |