Example sentences of "they spent [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PARTING was such sweet sorrow for actress Daryl Hannah and John F Kennedy Jnr , above , when they spent 45 minutes saying their goodbyes on a New York street . |
| 2 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 3 | They spent two years organising the site , getting volunteers from not only Britain , but abroad as well , and making sure that while the battle may have been seventeenth century , twentieth century comforts were still close at hand . |
| 4 | Climbing in a pure alpine style , without additional support , they spent six days climbing the Kishofer route on the Diamir face , and a further two and a half days to descend . |
| 5 | The cash , in bundles of £50 , £20 and £10 notes , was stolen while they spent twenty minutes shopping . |
| 6 | They spent three months building a mock aircraft — and it nose-dived straight into the sea . |
| 7 | They spent some time telling him what they thought of him . |
| 8 | They spent some time driving around before the woman persuaded the kidnapper to let her take the child into a shop to get some baby food . |
| 9 | Stirling and Tait managed to make it north to the escarpment where they spent some time observing enemy traffic on the coastal road below . |
| 10 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 11 | They spent 40 minutes locked inside … another paperboy arriving for work raised the alarm . |
| 12 | They spent several minutes examining the artificial creature . |