Example sentences of "[noun prp] spent some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby spent some time smoothing the ruffled sensibilities of Corbett Farraday ( ‘ I mean , after all , when you n–y to give them a bit of fun … ‘ ) , then he went to check the changing huts , which Bill Muggeridge usually forgot to lock after his afternoon tearing round blowing whistles at the boys . |
| 2 | In nineteen seventy four , Reg spent some time at the National Circus School in Paris , where he learnt , amongst other things , that the life of a circus performer was not for him . |
| 3 | Pammy Jane spent some time with her parents after the split before moving to the Highgrove estate near Tetbury , Glos . |
| 4 | ‘ So young Boden spent some time alone in there , alive and active . |
| 5 | To use such language under Cromwell 's government was to court persecution , and Taylor spent some time in the Tower of London as a result . |
| 6 | Post-war Victor spent some time with Aviation Traders before moving to his current employment . |
| 7 | Delaney spent some twenty minutes with the captain and crew in the red-lit cockpit with its enormous banks of dials , before passing back to change out of his suit and to check his own equipment . |
| 8 | After leaving 617 , J. spent some time with the Canadians in 6 Group , and then on to 4 Group at Marston Moor , before the war ended . |
| 9 | Fisher spent some time here and it is believed he entertained Erasmus , his great friend , at the Palace . |
| 10 | Although he seems to have the hang of it pretty well , a Harvard physicist named Thomas McMahon spent some time relearning this process on a computer . |
| 11 | Mansell spent some time on stage with his former boss Frank Williams , whose Canon-Williams team had won the Constructors ' Championship . |
| 12 | Parsons spent some time in England , too . |
| 13 | Niall spent some time with him , making him more comfortable and generally trying to reassure him . ’ |
| 14 | Dudley spent some seven years of obscurity until Elizabeth 1 once again forgave him , when in 1585 she decided to support the Dutch against the Spanish , and placed Dudley in command . |
| 15 | Like his predecessor Ralph Hodge , Mike Brogden spent some years at Millbank as Personnel General Manager . |
| 16 | When he resigned from Stowe in 1936 in order to become a full-time writer , White spent some months in a cottage near the school experimenting with falconry , later describing the episode in his most successful book , The Goshawk ( 1951 ) . |
| 17 | After graduating , Morgan spent some time amongst the Iroquois Indians , who had fascinated him since his college days , and published his famous League of the Iroquois in 1851 . |
| 18 | NOTTINGHAM CASTLE , now a museum and art gallery , was once home to the evil Sheriff and even Little John spent some time in service here . |