Example sentences of "spent [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 2 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 3 | Its inventor spent the remaining years of his life travelling from dental school to dental school making speeches that forbade dentists to ‘ misuse ’ his noble invention in applications for which he had not intended it . |
| 4 | Unemployed members who had only two shillings a day came twelve miles by train to attend street corner meetings , or to undertake office duties , spent the surviving pennies on food , and walked home into the small hours of the morning in winter weather . |
| 5 | Maggie spent the early part of the evening putting together her persona — scarlet lipstick and nail varnish , pale face , sheer black tights , a brief black dress with a bustier top , a black cloche hat , flat lace-up boots , long green earrings and finally a huge , spiky , green cat brooch pinned to her belt . |
| 6 | Bachelor Mr Wickins , who lived alone in a flat in Chelsea 's trendy King 's Road , in London , spent the early part of Thursday evening with friends . |
| 7 | Born in Huddersfield , Mike , 40 , spent the early part of his career wandering between journalism and PR , always promising himself one day he would sit down and write that book . |
| 8 | It accounts in fact for the new facial type which begins to make its appearance in his work during this year , l and which reached its most precise definition in the work executed by Picasso on his return from Gosol ( a village in the province of Lerida in Spain , where he spent the early part of the summer of 1906 ) , notably in the Portrait of Gertrude Stein . |
| 9 | He spent the early part of his short career at the Mater Hospital but eventually was involved in locum work throughout the province . |
| 10 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 11 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 12 | At Canniesburn Hospital , where he spent the major part of his working life , his close friend and colleague , Professor W Henry Reid , said that Prof Gibson was one of the city 's finest sons . |
| 13 | He spent the black hours best in the writing of hopelessly happy propositions to her that he kept for comfort in a drawer , as if they were love letters received from her instead of dead ones from himself that he saw no good in posting . |
| 14 | Now one of the major issues that we 're concerned about of course is the overtime erm which is , if you review the last three months of the overtime which we did the other day , erm we obviously , we spent the annual budget erm allowance . |
| 15 | ‘ Still bringing wages home to me dear old mum , ’ said Joe , who spent the occasional weekend with his parents in their Chatham home and was always there at Christmas . |
| 16 | A doctor who liked a life of action , as an Air Force major general he spent the Korean War years as a surgeon and during the Vietnam War flew into combat zones to help the wounded . |
| 17 | Surprisingly still unmarried , she lived with her obedient mother and spent the hard-earned money in a grand manner . |
| 18 | We spent the following day on the far bank of the river in a paradise of guava orchards and banana groves . |
| 19 | They hurriedly threw up earthen walls , stretching blankets over the top to shelter them ; and cooped up in a small place like this , four or five families together , they spent the following winter . ’ |
| 20 | However I spent the following summer at the University of California , Santa Barbara . |
| 21 | The Keraing , however , had put the wheels in motion , and while Sinar Surya was being prepared for the sea , and the pirates were still arguing about where she might go , and with whom , Lorne and I spent the following weeks suppressing our impatience by exploring our surroundings . |
| 22 | ‘ Is that the one you spent the New Year with ? ’ |
| 23 | We spent the long afternoon reading and dozing beneath the boat 's awning . |
| 24 | He bought some rocks and stones , and spent the long summer evenings building a rock garden over the grave . |
| 25 | Howard spent the entire day crossing the Salmon , before blundering after his elusive quarry . |
| 26 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 27 | As I failed to do this I spent the entire journey staring intently at the zip of my coat and at least I learned a lot about clothes fastenings that morning . |
| 28 | Having taken the stage ( significantly ) to the tune of James Brown 's ‘ Sex Machine ’ , he spent the entire performance on the move — swinging his microphone stand , wiggling his butt and kicking extra life into crowd-pleasers like Otis Redding 's ‘ Hard To Handle ’ , ‘ Jealous Again ’ and ‘ She Talks to Angels ’ . |
| 29 | The debuting vocalist therefore spent the entire set stooping to sing through a microphone a foot shorter than his requirement , hardly a sure-fire confidence booster . |
| 30 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |