Example sentences of "i [verb] spend some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I want to spend some , but I want to invest some , too . |
| 2 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 3 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 4 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 5 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 7 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 8 | They 've got it at the Law College and I 've I 've spent some lunchtimes fiddling with it and thinking I want ! |
| 9 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 11 | Finally , the concern with manipulation means that postclassical criminology is correctionalist , as were its classical and positivist predecessors ; that is why I have spent some time , in Chapter 3 , countering anti-correctionalist arguments . |
| 12 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 13 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |