Example sentences of "[conj] spend [art] lot of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever you choose it will need to be a matter of trial and error , but avoid anything that is slow or spends a lot of time near the bottom — it wo n't stand a chance . |
| 2 | Like Eddie Bleasdale , Xionics 's chairman , Mike Bevan , is keen that his firm should concentrate on new products , rather than spend a lot of time setting up mechanisms for producing and selling goods in massive numbers . |
| 3 | Well it 's better than spending a lot of money |
| 4 | On one memorable occasion , Mac came to one of the dances and spent a lot of time with me , even escorting me back to the Waaf site afterwards , making intelligent conversation about his home in Canada and shaking hands gravely as he said goodnight — so different from the smash and grab tactics I was usually treated to when trying to bring an evening to a satisfactory close . |
| 5 | Often she hated everyone and spent a lot of time crying , which the Robinses evidently decided not to see . |
| 6 | Millions of visitors have had a nice day out and spent a lot of money . |
| 7 | I was already identifying as a socialist and spent a lot of time arguing politics with the other girls . |
| 8 | Well , Richard and I knew the Duke and Duchess of Windsor quite well , and spent a lot of time with them in Paris , and this was our favourite piece of jewellery . |
| 9 | With the advent of punk music in 1977 I transferred my energies and enthusiasm from the military and spent a lot of time dressing up and putting Vaseline in my hair , much to the annoyance of my house master , a quiet Benedictine who wrote on my term report , ‘ Christian seems to have developed a nihilistic attraction for punk rock , which is strange for somebody who avoids violence even on the rugby field . |
| 10 | Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate . |
| 11 | I enjoyed this comparative freedom and spent a lot of time pacing around the cell . |
| 12 | Sarah and Maureen were now close friends and spent a lot of time together , and now that Anne was at home , the friendship between her and Sarah was resumed as strongly as ever . |
| 13 | Simply from examining the bones the experts can tell us that she suffered from childhood illness and spent a lot of her life sitting on her heels using her left hand , perhaps grinding corn . |
| 14 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 15 | He is chancellor of Stirling University and spends a lot of time going around lecturing at universities and schools . |
| 16 | A lot of them have eight legs and spend a lot of time in webs waiting for six-legged inhabitants to arrive for lunch . |
| 17 | I lead a very chaotic life and spend a lot of my time running around like a maniac so that keeps me fairly fit . |
| 18 | but spent a lot of time in Birmingham . |