Example sentences of "spend the time [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Guardian stalwart made a telling observation about him : ‘ While Ian Wolldridge might spend hours searching for the good line , Hugh will spend the time searching for the truth ’ — and suddenly I saw McIlvanney almost as if he were a bare-knuckle fighter in one of his brother 's novels . |
| 2 | ‘ While Ian Wooldridge might spend hours searching for a good line , McIlvanney will spend the time searching for the truth ’ |
| 3 | Instead of this , Morita spent the time taking clocks apart , listening to Western classical music and preferring to study physics to putting himself into business . |
| 4 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 5 | Television cameras were covering the bill and a number of those opposite the prying lenses spent the time waving at the cameras . |
| 6 | But as the promised storm broke , and they sheltered in the café eating more ice-creams , Shelley spent the time trying to imagine anyone setting their cap at her silent and uncommunicative boss . |
| 7 | He stayed in Paris for a week , and spent the time looking at paintings and collecting souvenirs — a stone from the Bastille , for example ; yet on his arrival in Orleans he met officers and members of Royalist clubs . |
| 8 | I spent the time making the house look nice ; I wanted him to know just what a lovely home I could build for us . |
| 9 | ‘ We spent the time avoiding bombs , ’ he said . |
| 10 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 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 | ’ I 'm not spending the time ploughing the Cochlea fever-steppes or herding Tyyrkyn mountain pigs . |
| 14 | There was nothing he wanted to see at any of the nearby cinemas , he 'd be irritable company in the local pub where he was a contender in a small bar-billiards school , so there was nothing for it but to spend the time watching television with the other sinners . |
| 15 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Weigh up the pros and cons ; decide if it is better to accept such invitations or to spend the time doing your own thing , perhaps sharing a mutual interest with one friend . |