Example sentences of "[pers pn] spend [adj] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He spent much of his childhood in China but returned home to school at Marlborough . |
| 4 | He spent much of his time reading and studying with a view to producing a firm and concise version of his political ideas . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Prince of Wales , he claimed , wanted money to support his horse racing ; the Duke of York to pay his bets and preserve his credit at Mucklow 's Tennis Court where he spent much of his time and lost a great deal of money estimated at £200,000 . |
| 7 | To this end , he spent much of his time personally constructing dams and pipelines . |
| 8 | His normal raggedness became positively disreputable and he spent much of his time sulking inside the McLaren motor-home : the joy had gone out of his life . |
| 9 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 10 | During the war he spent much of his time in Turin . |
| 11 | He spent much of his later years experimenting in his Heathfield workshop in Birmingham , one of his main interests being in designing a machine to copy sculptured heads . |
| 12 | Prior to joining the Institute , he spent much of his career with the Greater London Council and Inner London Education Authority , including spells as Head of the Private Office of the Leader of ILEA and in the management of the Authority 's colleges and polytechnics . |
| 13 | He spent much of his youth studying jiu jitsu , from which he drew heavily in the formulation of wado-ryu . |
| 14 | Luke nodded , apparently satisfied , and on the journey home he spent much of his time behind a newspaper . |
| 15 | It is true to say that he was almost exclusively concerned with military operations , and he spent much of his time in the latter stages of the war at a series of international conferences . |
| 16 | It 's here he spent much of his childhood , learning the secrets of the wood , which appear in his latest book . |
| 17 | But secretly he spent much of his time and most of his clients ' money living the good life in America and Spain . |
| 18 | He spent much of his time touring music schools which Yamaha run for Japanese children . |
| 19 | A little light relief in an otherwise routine opening day was provided by Walter Ablett from Essex ; a self-confessed working class Tory complete with cloth cap , he spent much of his time on the platform berating Labour 's efforts in Blackpool last week . |
| 20 | He spent most of his professional life outside his native Poland , working as a foreign and diplomatic correspondent for the Polish media . |
| 21 | He spent most of his time searching through magazines , picture books and newspapers , hoping to find some clue as to what had happened to his mother and father . |
| 22 | He spent most of his time watching the fishermen at work , and wrote with enthusiasm about having made friends with a family of ‘ three brothers , each surpassing the other in beauty ’ and the Spanish wife of one of them , ‘ yellow skin like a magnolia and hair black as moonshine . |
| 23 | He spent most of his time in the prison hospital , being dried out . |
| 24 | Errol Flynn claimed to have spent at least 13,000 nights in the arms of one women or another and although he was married three times , he spent most of his time away from his wives and children . |
| 25 | He spent most of his daylight hours outside . |
| 26 | He spent most of his time in the kitchens , among blue neon flytraps and steaming silver vats . |
| 27 | He spent most of his spare time up at Skiplam , where the girl he courted was the only child of a wealthy farmer . |
| 28 | He spent most of his free time working for the Overseas Workers ' Union , a clandestine anti-colonial organisation chiefly recruited from Indians and Chinese . |
| 29 | He spent most of his time in this one spot for he was a cripple . |
| 30 | She clung to Joe when he came home , and he spent most of his leave with her , though he went with Anne one day to see Sarah and her family , and told Sarah that Terry had her photograph pinned up above his bed . |