Example sentences of "spend [art] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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1 | they might have a , they might spend a bit of time topic , but they want , they 're just looking at you know variations in |
2 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
3 | Inside , where they will spend a lot of time in this northern climate , the zoo has thoughtfully specified sleeping cubicles , scramble nets , climbing ropes and in particular , their log climbing frames . |
4 | Like Eddie Bleasdale , Xionics 's chairman , Mike Bevan , is keen that his firm should concentrate on new products , rather than spend a lot of time setting up mechanisms for producing and selling goods in massive numbers . |
5 | They got on very well , nothing homosexual I do n't think , but they did spend a lot of time together . |
6 | So did you spend a lot of time in the mirror doing that ? |
7 | We often have lunch , although we do n't spend a lot of time socialising . |
8 | Then we would move to a training ground in the foothills of the Alps at Canjuers , where we would spend a month away from the regiment and the barracks , and learning the basics of fieldcraft , tactics and shooting , and where we would spend a lot of time living outside as self sufficient soldiers . |
9 | When you 're doing that you can actually spend a lot of time on pictures . |
10 | I mean I use things like Money Management , and they 're quite useful , erm but er you do n't need to erm er spend a lot of time looking round . |
11 | You do spend a lot of time on the radio telephone . |
12 | Apart from indicating status , each church represents perhaps the most important local focal place for any settlement , and we might spend a lot of time studying it in our local research . |
13 | This is difficult stuff I 'm not gon na spend a lot of time on this because it 's covered on various other courses as well . |
14 | ‘ I adore Ingrid , but I do spend a lot of time making love to her in the Baron and a man needs a change . |
15 | Although Mr Morris will spend a lot of time in the chair presiding over debates … with custom dictating that he will no longer vote or speak in the chamber … his new duties go far beyond that . |
16 | Although Mr Morris will spend a lot of time in the chair presiding over debates … with custom dictating that he will no longer vote or speak in the chamber … his new duties go far beyond that . |
17 | Do you spend a lot of time at Alison 's ? |
18 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
19 | Bud had a very special job , he erm , he was in charge of the Post War Planning and erm , he spent no end of time and er a great deal of research having er committee member er committee meetings to do with the setting up of County Colleges |
20 | After that we spent a lot of time practising in what later became Riverside Studios . |
21 | During that period , I spent a lot of time with Calvin Mark Lee , basically because he was Lou Reisner 's assistant , and he and I got on really well . |
22 | She told me that Tony spent a lot of time making passes at her , but she was horrible flirtatious and very beautiful . |
23 | We spent a lot of time in the National Gallery and at the Tate , and wrote some poems about the pictures there , including Verrocchio 's Tobias and the Angel , Piero di Cosima 's Mythological Subject and Titian 's Christ Appearing to the Magdalen — Noli me Tangere , whose theme had a special significance for me now : Dana was Christ , and I was the Magdalen . |
24 | We spent a lot of time in the mountains . |
25 | For a start , I spent a lot of time on my own , or with London friends . |
26 | The townspeople also spent a lot of time scribbling on walls — love letters , advertisements , sexual boasts and political slogans ( ’ Vote for Lucius , he is an honest man ’ ) — while a mortgage on wax was also discovered under the ash . |
27 | Cameron spent a lot of time sitting at his piano with the lid down , his fingers resting on the wood , whistling unconsciously . |
28 | I realised that many did drugs , so I spent a lot of time in the drug community before hand , so that once I hooked up with the women I could move back and forth . |
29 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
30 | Although they were all very different ( Boy spent a lot of time noticing the differences in their physiques , techniques , cars and living rooms ) , they were also all the same in one respect . |