Example sentences of "spend the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move to Midshire even made economic sense ; she had several modest school recitals in Birmingham and the Black Country during the next month , and it would be cheaper to move up there and find a furnished room somewhere , rather than spend the intervening time here in town . |
| 2 | Leather corals , unlike some coelenterates , do not spend the entire time fully expanded . |
| 3 | They 'd probably spend the entire time at one another 's throats ! |
| 4 | Me , too , come to that — if you do n't come , he 'll spend the whole time fretting about the book . ’ |
| 5 | Do not spend the whole time talking about yourself , your job and your life . |
| 6 | It has also been a tenet of good security that prisoners should spend the maximum time outside their cells being kept busy working . |
| 7 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 8 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 9 | Louise came again , towing Suzanne , who spent the entire time shuttered off within the earphones of her Walkman ; if spoken to she smiled with bland and tolerant self-absorption , like the very old . |
| 10 | I spent the whole time trying to explain the family connection . ’ |
| 11 | Only had one sitting , spent the whole time fending the old bugger off . |
| 12 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 13 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 14 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 15 | Poor Martinho , almost his portly self again , had spent the whole time with at least one gun in his back . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've spent the whole time trying to convince myself it could never work between us , ’ he went on , as though she had n't spoken . |
| 17 | Not all of us like using woodworking machines , and do not mind spending the extra time achieving results which may be less perfect and mechanical-looking . |
| 18 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 19 | But he would have preferred to spend the extra time in bed none the less . |
| 20 | We have tried to keep them simple to prepare , bearing in mind that most of us are busy and therefore prefer to spend the minimum time possible preparing food . |
| 21 | Although each institutional investor may still only own a very small percentage of the issued share capital of the company , nevertheless , they have the requisite skills to monitor management effectively , and can act collectively to exert pressure on the managers of the company , thereby overcoming the problem that there is little incentive for the individual shareholder to spend the necessary time and money to inform himself of and perhaps challenge the actions of the directors as the managers of the company . |
| 22 | If you are involved with local politics , meeting people is going to be part of your task — unless you are ready to spend the whole time in a backroom stuffing envelopes . |
| 23 | ‘ My dear , I must tell you , so amUsing ’ , one whispers to the other , ‘ Monsieur *** de *** , FAR from being happily married as everyone thought , apparently spends the ENTIRE time when he 's in London clad in very ODD lederhosen in some pizzeria opposite the Knightsbridge barracks picking up little leather boys . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You spend the whole time itching and scratching , and the wounds become infected . |
| 25 | ‘ And I know what they say about people who invite other people out to dinner and then spend the whole time trying to depress them and ruin their lives . ’ |