Example sentences of "spend [adv] [coord] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the adoption , McCarty spent less and less time with Cooper , who only got more arrogant and eccentric . |
| 2 | After Madeleine left , Edouard spent more and more time with the little boy -every free moment . |
| 3 | He spent more and more time at Highgrove — while Diana refused point blank to be away from the London scene . |
| 4 | She spent more and more time off her eggs , parading about the yard , cackling as if demented and taking sudden rushes in whatever direction she happened to be facing when each fit of frenzy overcame her . |
| 5 | The orchestra , extremely democratically-run and independent-minded , was bruised , strained and a little anxious about its standards after clashes with the great maestro , who at the same time had spent less and less time with it . |
| 6 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 7 | Now that I am retired , I find I am spending more and more time on voluntary charity work , for which I am very happy to take part , and I am hoping to make a start on making small wooden articles including picture and plate frames . |
| 8 | Lucy had to stay in bed as much as possible on doctor 's orders , Dad was spending more and more time on the golf course and in the pub to escape from what he called the ‘ pressures ’ , and Charles was in an increasingly pessimistic mood about the future of Chester 's . |
| 9 | By March , with the Germans driving forwards toward Paris from the north-east and renewed heavy air-raids , Parisians were spending more and more time in cellars and shelters . |
| 10 | Shall 1 take the boss 's job and risk spending more and more time in the office ? |
| 11 | Between 1955 and 1964 Barry 's job title remained that of a Production Assistant even though , throughout most of the early Sixties , he was spending more and more time in the Director 's seat , only narrowly missing , through his own admitted naivety , the golden opportunity of directing Donald Wilson 's great opus , The Forsyte Saga . |
| 12 | During the past twenty years he has spent more and more time in Greece — and the paintings in the current exhibition of this veteran Abstract Expressionist at the ACA Galleries are the result of extended periods spent in Greece during the past two years ( 4 to 27 March ) . |