Example sentences of "i spend a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a day with her family at Eastbourne — except that it was n't with her family , for I hardly met them . |
| 2 | Occasionally I spent a day in London , always returning at night to keep my mother company . |
| 3 | I 've got four CSEs and I spent a year on day release , learning about making wreaths and business management . |
| 4 | I am a male of 49 years living on my own in rented accommodation , I spent a year on E.T . |
| 5 | But I spent a year in that shadowland . |
| 6 | ‘ I spent a fortune on drink and drugs . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 8 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
| 9 | The huge Georgian house , set in acres of gorgeous countryside , used to be a sort of evangelical holiday retreat for young lads , and I spent a couple of winter weeks there . |
| 10 | I spent a couple of days rehearsing my speech in my head , and checking various ideas with Brian . |
| 11 | I spent a couple of hundred years on the bottom of a lake once . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For a start , I spent a lot of time on my own , or with London friends . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I spent a lot of time attending to it , but I ran all the way , which is good enough , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Over a period of ten days I spent a lot of energy and seemed to come through with colours flying . |
| 17 | I spent a lot of time discovering and browsing through the bookshops , and then reading on the lawns which led down to the river Cam from the backs of the colleges . |
| 18 | The phrasing of Japanese , Indian and Chinese music really fascinated me , so I spent a lot of time studying what made that music work . |
| 19 | All this was a strong indication that the important weakening defects lay on the surface and around 1957 Margaret Parratt , David Marsh and I spent a lot of time examining the surface of glass . |
| 20 | I spent a lot of time listening to records and just hanging out with friends . |
| 21 | As a result , I spent a lot of time in training — sometimes a whole afternoon — when I could have been at school . |
| 22 | ‘ I spent a lot of time speaking with Jean-Claude Olivier [ chief of French Yamaha importers Sonauto and their GP team ] in the months after the last GP . |
| 23 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |
| 24 | I spent a lot of time lying on the couch in the living room , watching day-time television with a sneer on my face and my books on my lap , making snide remarks at the soaps and quizzes , chat shows and audience participation fora , skimming the scummy surface of our effervescent present in preference to plumbing the adumbrate depths of the underlying past . |
| 25 | I spent a lot of time with him . |
| 26 | For the background landscape , I spent a lot of time sketching at Sandringham and altered some aspects to make the composition more pleasing . |
| 27 | ‘ I spent a lot of time with Phil Silvers talking about his family away from the others , ’ Anita Harris now recalls . |
| 28 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 29 | I mean the only country I spent a lot of time in , in , in Europe is Austria , and then I only stopped in remote villages , you know , more or less , so er , I mean they rely on eh , tourist trade , they rely on tourist trade , where , where I 've |
| 30 | He goes I spent a lot of money on you this year Nat . |