Example sentences of "[verb] spend the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lost his hair through chemotherapy treatment and has spent the time since recovering from the disease , which spread to his lungs . |
| 2 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 3 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 4 | If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible . |
| 5 | He considered , now , that he should have spent the time he had wasted on all that fiction in working on his great book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge instead . |
| 6 | Her agent had all but ordered her in front of a firing squad when she had broken the news to him — it was fortunate that she had already pencilled a six-month-long break into her diary , intending to spend the time writing new material . |
| 7 | But more people today can have a taste of travel and experience its intrinsic glamour than was possible fifty years ago , when only the well-off and aristocrats could afford to spend the time and money going abroad . |
| 8 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
| 9 | Or that girl with the Esquimau nose ? ) and not daring to spend the time she used to in study lest she be dangerously good , she now had hours and hours in which to brood and her old pains came back to life . |
| 10 | While I do not regret spending the time with my children in their early years , I feel that the medical world is not the place for people trying to combine a family and career . ’ |
| 11 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 12 | Though he 'd spoken with Klein daily there was no sign of a commission yet , so he had spent the time re-educating himself . |
| 13 | She had spent the time since her arrival making calm arrangements for the transfer of her father 's body to their Buckinghamshire home after the inquest tomorrow , and was now apparently set on clearing up this murder before she left . |
| 14 | She was due for a snack at three , followed by another blood-sugar reading , and Belinda had planned to spend the time until then reading up on some aspects of prenatal care that she felt hazy on . |
| 15 | How many of us have spent the time to get to know that person imprisoned in the vagrant ? |
| 16 | ‘ We have spent the time very quietly getting to know each other again , and in John 's case , picking up with friends and family . |