Example sentences of "[verb] spend some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the very day of the dinner Charlotte Poole was writing in her journal : ‘ We are shocked to hear that Mr. Thelwall has spent some time at Stowey this week with Mr. Coleridge , and consequently with Tom Poole .
2 Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning
3 Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there .
4 You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money .
5 ‘ Tell me you 've come to spend some money , ’ said Nubenehem in greeting .
6 We want to spend some money on employ Enforcement Officer to stop happening again which is going to be so costly to this Council .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 It 's I would like to spend some money , can I mention that now then ?
10 I was going out later and Sophie and I were going to spend some time on the beach with the two girls .
11 We are , therefore , going to spend some time getting to know the real you .
12 I am going to spend some time with my family . ’
13 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
14 Having spent some time as a ‘ little kid ’ at the front of the terrace , and having learned through close observation the most rudimentary rules of conduct appropriate to being a Rowdy , the young fan simply shifts his location to the back of the End and to the fringes of the Rowdies group .
15 Having spent some time delving into the subject , I can report that pen computers are still mostly useless because of the lack of proper pen software .
16 Having spent some time loading and editing complicated vector graphics files in CorelDRAW I can vouch for the accuracy of this claim .
17 I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering .
18 I know Howard Wilkinson was disappointed at the delivery in the first leg and , if I know him , Leeds will have spent some time since working to make sure those balls count next time .
19 In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company .
20 Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house .
21 Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 He also planned to spend some time studying work in a flour-mill .
26 ‘ Do you want to spend some time on those ECG tracings this afternoon , George ?
27 Jean-Claude had warned me that Otto would want to spend some time at the gastronomic festival being held in Romorantin .
28 Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home .
29 Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them .
30 To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population .
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