Example sentences of "[pers pn] spend [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor do I spend much time listening to jazz . |
| 2 | Only in the evenings did I spend some time with Mr Rochester , and I was careful not to allow him to hold me in his arms or kiss me . |
| 3 | Where would I spend those precious , unforgettable hours tonight , and with whom ? |
| 4 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 5 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 6 | Accompanied by our daughter , I spent many happy hours helping there . |
| 7 | Andrew and I spent many hours on the Windrush porch discussing almost everything under the sun from party politics to mystic transcendentalism . |
| 8 | ‘ I spent many a sleepless night worryin' about you ; prayin' for you . |
| 9 | A few years later , mass produced model cars were commonplace , but thanks to Dad my friends and I spent many happy hours with the early version he produced in 1923 . |
| 10 | I spent many hours working out patterns and ‘ staggering ’ rows so that they knitted correctly . |
| 11 | They nested under the guttering and I spent many a happy lunch-hour wandering around counting their grenade-shaped nests , made of mud and stuck to the eaves of the school buildings . |
| 12 | ‘ I spent many years driving in London , when I was stationed there . ’ |
| 13 | My colleagues and I spent many hours discussing this issue , when we first sat down to decide how we were going to approach the running of our company . |
| 14 | But it was the truth , and I spent many summer hours of study under the beeches growing above where the Portland Building now stands . |
| 15 | I spent many hours contemplating ( as we fishkeepers do ) the fact that I would like an extra pond to separate my goldfish from the Koi . |
| 16 | I spent many days alone in my room . |
| 17 | I spent many hours like this , in very enjoyable conversation . |
| 18 | Weeks passed , and I spent many hours studying Flint 's map and dreaming of treasure . |
| 19 | I told no one , not even Méli , about my visit to Conchis , but I spent many hours conjecturing about the mysterious third person in the house . |
| 20 | I spent many hours hidden in the bushes , silently watching one pair of bulbuls make their nest from beginning to end . |
| 21 | I spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug . |
| 22 | ‘ I spent many days alone in my room , ’ Edward wrote later . |
| 23 | I spent many happy hours on this beach . |
| 24 | I spent many sleepless nights tossing and turning |
| 25 | ‘ No , but until my late teens I spent each and every holiday on the Algarve so I have had conversations with quite a few . ’ |
| 26 | I spent much of my childhood in the New Forest and have watched with sadness as it has deteriorated over the decades . |
| 27 | In the two schools in which I spent much of my working life ( one as head , one as assistant teacher responsible for physical education ) the broad aims were almost identical and may be summed up as follows : the creation of a living community of children in which the Arts , music , painting and poetry flourished ; where social awareness came before selfish intolerance ; where the written and spoken word was valued as a means to a more distant educational end rather than as an end in itself ; where understanding of number was regarded as more important than the ability to manipulate figures . |
| 28 | I was slightly built , and although I hated team sports and games , I spent much time in the school gym doing circuit training and fitness programmes . |
| 29 | I spent much of my time with my father , watching him sketch , or fish for salmon in the Slaney . |
| 30 | Most of my Eton contemporaries at Oxford were at Christ Church , Trinity , Balliol or New College , and it was with them I spent much of my time . |