Example sentences of "[verb] to spend some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barraga ( 1976 ) claims that ‘ In order to stimulate interest in visual development , and in learning to see more things , many children may need to spend some time visually investigating objects in the classroom or in the natural environment to broaden their visual experiences . ’ |
| 2 | It grieves me to say that the committee seemed to spend some time trying to denigrate the authority 's findings and to vindicate the tobacco industry . |
| 3 | I was going out later and Sophie and I were going to spend some time on the beach with the two girls . |
| 4 | We are , therefore , going to spend some time getting to know the real you . |
| 5 | I am going to spend some time with my family . ’ |
| 6 | We should be , we we 're only here for a little while cos I 'm going to spend some time with the girls cos I ai n't see their |
| 7 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 8 | If a local authority behaved as the Government have over the sale of public assets , its members would be disqualified and taken before the district auditor and might have to spend some time in gaol — and quite right , too . |
| 9 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 10 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 11 | He also planned to spend some time studying work in a flour-mill . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want to spend some time on those ECG tracings this afternoon , George ? |
| 13 | Jean-Claude had warned me that Otto would want to spend some time at the gastronomic festival being held in Romorantin . |
| 14 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 15 | Coleridge was under contract to the Morning Post , and had to spend some time in London ; but in October 1799 he walked in the Lake District with William and John Wordsworth , and after a certain period of indecision arrived at Greta Hall , Keswick , with his wife and family in August 1800 . |
| 16 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
| 17 | Finally we need to spend some time considering the role of decentralised administration in the public sector . |
| 18 | ‘ Then it is possible that he will be planning to spend some time in Tbilisi . |
| 19 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
| 20 | " You have to spend some time on the practice tee , and you have to take a different approach every day . |
| 21 | They would be let to people who , for one reason or another , wanted to spend some time in the country away from the pressures of the modern world and are prepared to live very simply . |
| 22 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |