Example sentences of "and spend [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 2 | Bored , I ran away from Downside when I was sixteen and spent two days in Paris , sleeping rough , before hitch-hiking home . |
| 3 | Phil and Margaret developed a slide presentation on business plans and spent two days at the St Robert of Newminster Secondary School helping students make their own plans . |
| 4 | A dozen of them travelled to west Cumbria at the invitation of BNFL News editor Steve Howarth , who is also a Northern region committee member , and spent two days as guests of BNFL . |
| 5 | Men who had formed associations to go hill-walking , cycling , even mountaineering , clutching pamphlets like Initial Efforts on the Boulder Face , or Coping with Crevices , and spent long days toiling up braes and free-wheeling down glens , now had a wage to earn . |
| 6 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 7 | Although one of the sons suffered severe injuries such as a black eye and damage to his kidney and spent 5 days in hospital it took the police over 6 weeks to decide whether to charge anyone . |
| 8 | Having served with the Duke of Wellington 's Regiment in two campaigns on the north-west frontier of India , the Corporal was recalled briefly in 1938 , went to France in 1939 , and spent five days coming out over the Dunkirk beaches . |
| 9 | So far , he 's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution . |
| 10 | The delegates went to the border and spent three days there screening hundreds of people and conducting in-depth interviews with many of them . |
| 11 | Sid Boyling and I joined forces that year on a holiday to New York , and spent some days in Toronto , en route , visiting the Canadian National Exhibition . |
| 12 | For the Residential Project Category , Fiona whose Christian leadership and spent several days with the Girls Brigade . |
| 13 | He arrived on Monday , 18th , and spent several days investigating the shooting . |
| 14 | Following worker demonstrations in 1970 he was elected chairman of the workshop strike committee and spent several days in detention . |
| 15 | Patients leave the local hospital on average eight days after the fracture and spend nine days in the ‘ hospital at home ’ . |
| 16 | Visit the donkey and it 's pigeon friend at Arkudi , and spend two days exploring the many quiet fiord like inlets on the north coast of Meganisi . |
| 17 | While in Cumbria , he had obtained leave from Earl Leofric to ride south through Mercia and spend two days in the quiet of Oswestry with Thorfinn 's periglour Sulien , who had travelled from Llanbadarn to meet him . |
| 18 | In several primary schools children are working together at ‘ turtle geometry ’ projects in which they set their own goals and spend several days or weeks achieving them . |
| 19 | However , since she needed to fill her time until his return , what better way than to go to the capital city , and spend some days taking a look round ? |