Example sentences of "[pers pn] spend a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why else would I spend a nickel phoning you the glad tidings . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I spent a crowded lonely day . |
| 8 | I 've got four CSEs and I spent a year on day release , learning about making wreaths and business management . |
| 9 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 10 | Occasionally I spent a day in London , always returning at night to keep my mother company . |
| 11 | I spent a great deal of time and study on it , over half a year , before I was ready to conduct it . |
| 12 | I spent a little precious time searching for a telephone , but could n't find one . |
| 13 | For a start , I spent a lot of time on my own , or with London friends . |
| 14 | After visiting the Hayward Gallery I spent a half-hour just gazing along the river line , the historic buildings sharp in the clear , cold , sunny air . |
| 15 | In warm afternoon sunshine I spent a pleasing hour wandering the narrow Gassen ( lanes ) round the Münsterplatz . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I spent a perplexing evening in a Georgia bar some years ago endeavouring to persuade a local that I could NOT have driven from London . |
| 18 | There was a bon mot current : one Foreign Office wit to another — ‘ I spent a month in Bletchley last Sunday ’ . |
| 19 | I spent a day with her family at Eastbourne — except that it was n't with her family , for I hardly met them . |
| 20 | I spent a year and a half in a kibbutz then joined the English army for five years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I spent a lot of time attending to it , but I ran all the way , which is good enough , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 24 | Over a period of ten days I spent a lot of energy and seemed to come through with colours flying . |
| 25 | When I was nine , I spent a school year in Miss Onion 's class . |
| 26 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the end I retreated to the sofa , where I spent a cold , uncomfortable and furiously sleepless night . |
| 29 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 30 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |