Example sentences of "[pron] spend [adj] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some of these officials will now be tainted by associations with Zhao Ziyang , who spent much of his early career in Guangdong . |
| 2 | Hamar was a highly trained imported showhorse , who spent much of his life in unnatural and stressful conditions . |
| 3 | Claude , the seventeenth-century French painter who spent much of his life in Italy , formulated a set of rules for landscape painting that became de rigueur . |
| 4 | The biographer of Edward the Confessor shows us ( in what is meant to be a panegyric ) the picture of a thoroughly idle king , who spent much of his time ‘ in the glades and woods in the pleasures of hunting ’ . |
| 5 | Miyagi 's instructor was the great Kanryo Higaonna , who spent much of his youth on mainland China and is known to have studied Chinese boxing methods . |
| 6 | It was another highly talented Scottish athlete Ian McCafferty 21 years previously who spent much of his time ( and money ) phoning home from the Munich Olympics . |
| 7 | Jess the collie was a laid-back sort of hound who spent most of his life stretched out on a fireside rug in his large Surrey home . |
| 8 | Sturgeon 's father John was a ne'er-do-well shoemaker , who spent most of his days poaching fish and rearing gamecocks . |
| 9 | Despite the rigours of Junior football and Celtic 's body building sessions , Johnstone remained a midget , a dwarf amongst giants who spent most of his career infuriating psychopathic defenders with his slippery dribbling style . |
| 10 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |
| 11 | ‘ As the great man pointed out , we ca n't theorise without data , ’ cited Sergeant Bird , who spent most of his evenings alone with a book . |
| 12 | A simple tailor who spent most of his life working in a sweat-shop in the East End of London . ’ |
| 13 | Hilary ( our agent ) and also Elizabeth ( our courier ) made a splendid job of serving up the wine and snacks whilst we toured the city , listening to an accordionist who spent most of his time falling in love with the ladies . |
| 14 | Antonio Gramsci , who spent most of his adult life in one of Mussolini 's prisons , elaborated on Marx 's insight that the ruling ideas of an epoch are the ideas of its ruling class , to create a theory of hegemony and a theory of classes of intellectuals whose function it is in any literate society to propagate or to challenge these leading ideas . |
| 15 | A diplomat who spent most of his working life in foreign capitals could easily feel himself part of an aristocratic international to which national feeling was hardly more than a vulgar plebeian prejudice . |
| 16 | A country-lover who spent most of his life in the great outdoors has died suddenly in the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 17 | Neighbours spoke of a quiet man who spent most of his spare time working for charity . |
| 18 | STOCKHOLM ( UPI , Reuter ) — A Norwegian professor , Trygve Haavelmo , 78 , described as a humble man who spends much of his time in seclusion at his mountain cottage , was awarded the 1989 Nobel Economics Prize for pioneering use of mathematical statistics to interpret economic data . |
| 19 | One person who spends much of his time doing the same thing is Master of Wine Tim Hanni from the Beringer Vineyards School for American Chefs . |
| 20 | Life as seen from the platform at Paddington is most varied and one can not help thinking that an official who spends most of his time there must gain a vast knowledge of human nature … |
| 21 | A person who spends most of his or her time in the home will receive a higher dose . |
| 22 | Trevor Woolston , who spends most of his time either at York or Grinton in Swaledale , is the director of the Swaledale Festival , which is in its twelfth year . |
| 23 | The Very Old Fish , who is so old he ca n't remember his age , Hangle who spends most of his time hidden in the wardrobe , and the Drawer People , who are forever sneaking out to make mischief , are just some of the very odd characters who share Wizadora 's house and her often chaotic adventures . |
| 24 | A senior corporation planner in the Northeast , who spends most of his time not so much planning as picking up the pieces of careless politics , recalled the principle of high-rise : |
| 25 | A foreman who spends most of his time riding herd on this week 's production quotas but who must also develop a program to deal with the labor requirements of next year 's retooling has a responsibility time span of a year or a little more . |
| 26 | The family moved to London in 1897 , and Rosenberg was educated at the Baker Street Board School in Stepney , where his natural gift for both drawing and writing so impressed the headmaster that he allowed him to spend most of his time on them . |
| 27 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 28 | He spent much of his childhood in China but returned home to school at Marlborough . |
| 29 | He spent much of his time reading and studying with a view to producing a firm and concise version of his political ideas . |
| 30 | Robert III may have been born in Dundonald Castle and it is certain that he spent much of his life there before he became king . |