Example sentences of "spent [adj] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wattling 's father was in the army , and his mother spent half of the year in Singapore or wherever he happened to be stationed , so his state was even more bereft than Tilney 's , whose parents were divorced but whose father was stationed less than fifty miles away . |
| 2 | ‘ Maybe I fully intended to tell you , but you 'd made me furious by lunching with my secretary — jealousy again of course , ’ he inserted ‘ and then spent some of the mealtime telling me of it . |
| 3 | Jeffrey — who was watched by most of his sevens charges — spent some of the tie on the wing , but there was a customary rumbustious downing of Cassell , and the scriptwriters had the perfect finale as he notched the Scots ’ sole try , courtesy of a pass from his ‘ not so old ’ back-row pal , Finlay Calder . |
| 4 | My wife Suzie and I spent some of the cash having an extension put on our house in Willesden and it was also around that time that our children started at private school . |
| 5 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 6 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 7 | Partly because she spent much of the day alone in the house painting , she welcomed company in the evenings and would press Rodrigo into more visits to Soho than he wished to make . |
| 8 | Toby was in fact if not in name in charge of the twenty-seven boarders at Burleigh , and he spent much of the day with nothing to do . |
| 9 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 10 | They spent much of the winter , from Palm Sunday until late August , in the centre of a chilly and miserable bay at what is now Puerto San Julián — a winter made doubly wretched by an appalling mutiny and the consequent executions and maroonings that Magellan ordered ; by the stranding and wrecking of the Santiago , which the Captain-General had sent on a sounding expedition ; and by the realization of the dreadful damage done to the remaining ships by the constant chomping and feasting of those plank-gourmets of the seas , the teredo worms . |
| 11 | Mr Taylor and Rick Parry , the Premier League chief executive , who spent much of the weekend trying to thrash out an agreement on the telephone , are likely to meet again in the next 48 hours . |
| 12 | In the week since she had left he had slept poorly and spent much of the night pacing around the house . |
| 13 | Drawn to India by her spiritual and political interests , she spent much of the rest of her life there . |
| 14 | Dawn 's parents learned of the accident some three hours later , went immediately to the hospital , and spent much of the rest of the night waiting for information . |
| 15 | Not an academic himself , Braverman began his working life as an apprentice coppersmith and spent much of the rest of it in socialist journalism and in publishing . |
| 16 | BELOW Baden , where Constanze Mozart spent much of the years 1789–91 for the sake of her health . |
| 17 | They spent much of the war running a hostel in North Kensington . |
| 18 | The 25-year-old from New Orleans spent much of the season in the shadow of Kevin Mitchell , the man he followed in the Giants ' batting line-up and the leader in home runs and RBIs in the majors . |
| 19 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 20 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 21 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 22 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 23 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |
| 24 | He spent much of the time swerving and cursing other drivers . |
| 25 | Tom and Brian spent much of the time reading . |
| 26 | The WEU spent much of the period from mid-1990 to mid-1991 in redefining its role and its aspirations in the light of the generally decreasing level of superpower tensions , and particularly in the light of the United States ' plans to withdraw a large proportion of its troops from NATO bases in Europe . |
| 27 | It was a cold , wet February ; and Branson spent most of the weekend in front of the blazing log fire , reading . |
| 28 | In 1925 he resigned from the army , and spent most of the rest of his long life travelling — mainly in western and central Asia — and studying birds , partly as cover for observing international politics . |
| 29 | She fell in love with Nutmeg , our Norfolk terrier , who spent most of the day stealing food from the film 's canteen . ’ |
| 30 | I spent most of the day staring at the walls and ceiling and wondering when the next meal would come . |