Example sentences of "spend [pos pn] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those awaiting execution will spend their last days almost entirely alone . |
| 2 | BR 's motive-power policy was rapidly turned on its head with the abandonment of two sacred principles : sectorisation saw the end of the common-user policy for locomotives and passenger multiple units : and no longer was it accepted that life-expired main-line cast-offs should spend their last days propping up secondary services . |
| 3 | How would you spend your last day on earth ? |
| 4 | Lawrence spent his final days in the company of Mabel Dodge Luhan — the heiress whose home in Greenwich Village had been the spawning ground of some of America 's most famous pre-World War I radical and literary figures — and , thus , provided an oddly suitable setting for the desolate position in which Hopper found himself . |
| 5 | They were joined by John McCarthy , who spent his first days of freedom at the airbase after five and a half years as a hostage . |
| 6 | Among the more bizarre events after Mr Hancock 's demise was a police swoop on the quarters where he spent his last days . |
| 7 | KING CHARLES I spent his last days and very last night as a free man in Stamford at the house of Alderman Richard Wolph in Barn Hill ( on the site of the present Stukeley House ) . |
| 8 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |
| 9 | ‘ Your sister 's son spent his last days with me . |
| 10 | Elizabeth Hoby died at a great age in 1609 , after spending her final days painstakingly and efficiently planning her own funeral , down to the minutest detail . |
| 11 | More than two hundred children whose school was damaged by a severe gale have spent their last day in temporary classrooms . |
| 12 | A four year old girl who 's undergone a revolutionary heart transplant operation has spent her first day at school . |
| 13 | Both have busy working lives and they realised they were seeing less and less of each other and spending their one day together , Sunday , in a daze . |
| 14 | There are , of course , those who have infinitely more experience that Squidgey when it comes to caring and sharing with people who are spending their last days in AIDS wards and/or hospices . |
| 15 | They could hope to learn later where Berowne had spent his last day on earth . |
| 16 | Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not Hess , ’ Foley told Edward , after spending his first day with the man . |
| 18 | Ben could think of better ways of spending his free day — a round of golf — even doing the garden — but according to Louise , and he had to agree with her , you did n't ditch a friend because a friend ditched you . |
| 19 | This means they have to spend their first days of life in hospital and ca n't go home for several weeks . |
| 20 | They were to spend their last days there with her aunt Nicolette 's family in Neuilly where they had just moved . |
| 21 | She used to spend her whole day locked in a basement room with her sister-in-law and the four young children they had between them . |
| 22 | ‘ You make me sound like someone who spends their entire day in front of the nearest mirror and never travels without a cosmetic tray in their handbag . ’ |
| 23 | The sad fact is that many of these ‘ irruptive ’ birds spend their last days in the islands , because if they do not move on immediately while they still have the strength , the more time they spend searching for what is n't there , the less chance there is of their being able to make another long sea crossing . |