Example sentences of "[verb] spend a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 63-year-old Oscar winning actress is expected to spend a week in hospital after Sunday 's operation on the tumour , which may be cancerous . |
| 2 | well I said I would n't mind spending a week at aunty Mary 's me for a week |
| 3 | I 'm not going to spend a week on the route |
| 4 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 5 | They had been invited to spend a week or two at the country house of Mr Josiah Barnet , a banker on Wall Street , whom Mr Carson had met in the course of business . |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't have thought the Prince was one to wish to spend a week admiring the beauties of the river bank . ’ |
| 7 | Gail , from Stepps , worked very hard for her success , which included spending a week of her holidays with young people as part of the residential section of her Award . |
| 8 | He 'd never have spent a week milksopping around this godforsaken backwater on account of — one little bag of bones . ’ |
| 9 | There were a number of contacts to make , both in New York and on the West Coast ; Cadogan 's was thinking of expanding to San Francisco to take advantage of the considerable artistic activity out there , and he had been asked to spend a week in reconnoitring and reviewing possible sites . |
| 10 | ‘ They should all be forced to spend a week here — it would do them a world of good . ’ |
| 11 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 12 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 13 | After Elinor had spent a week in the nursing home , Annabel and Miranda were allowed to visit . |
| 14 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 15 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 16 | The first ceasefire to be brokered by the UN rather than the EC was negotiated in Geneva and came into force on Nov. 23 , after Vance had spent a week monitoring the situation in Yugoslavia . |
| 17 | Early in their friendship , when Alice had to spend a week in London and Alex was away , she had given Meg one of her spare keys to the cottage so that she could go in to collect and forward her post . |
| 18 | Q : We are planning to spend a week in New York in May , but good hotels seem rather expensive . |