Example sentences of "spend the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would spend the night with some dumb creature friends . |
| 2 | She sometimes thought that if they went somewhere hot and beachy as most people did — the Seychelles , the Maldives , the Caribbean — they would spend the whole day swimming or sunbathing . |
| 3 | Given a large enough supply of machine catalogues and enough flexibility of mind to give yourself different problems , an inventive woodworker could spend the entire winter playing this game . |
| 4 | The winner and their partner will spend the first week in Antigua , based at Hawksbill Bay , with its four magnificent beaches . |
| 5 | In Warsaw , dozens of East Germans were last night waiting in front of the embassy , filling out forms and wondering where they would spend the night . |
| 6 | Rektum will spend the money on reassembling their career in a less pressurised climate : up to now their recordings have only been available on bootleg cassettes , while their live performances have taken place exclusively underground . |
| 7 | We would spend the afternoon re-enacting in the parking lot behind the apartment what we had seen in the morning on the screen . |
| 8 | ‘ He is trapped in a body which is severely disabled and will spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair . ’ |
| 9 | Poor France , where the Kiwis will spend the next three weeks , are now likely to suffer the consequences of this improvement . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose I 'll spend the £500 on having a nice time in Paris . |
| 11 | Whitbread says it will spend the money from selling the wines and spirits business on expanding its Pizza Hut , Beefeater Steak Houses , Country Club Hotels and TGI Friday 's chains in the UK and Europe and on the company 's Keg chain of restaurants in the US . |
| 12 | President Borja may spend the windfall , or try to stock a ‘ war chest ’ for renegotiating Ecuador 's $12 billion foreign debt . |
| 13 | She did n't spend the money on clothes — he suspected she just liked to see it mounting up as an escape fund . |
| 14 | ( Why should he spend the fare ? ) |
| 15 | Refusing to be beaten , he decided to tackle the problem head on ; reminding himself that otherwise he would spend the rest of his life wondering . |
| 16 | Hence , the horse may spend the day avoiding mature people , and then find to its surprise that it has been caught by a child-foal that it had not perceived as possessing such ability . |
| 17 | Are n't there more important things in my life that I could spend the time on that is currently taken up with exercise ? ’ |
| 18 | If it was wet , we might spend the day making music . |
| 19 | He made a similar point about a rise in salary for municipal employees : there was no possibility of seriously debating that unless the local Assembly knew what they might otherwise spend the money on , and what the total budget for the municipalities was — and information on both points was not forthcoming . |
| 20 | No person or officer could hold or spend the collective income . |
| 21 | She could not spend the day looking out of the window . |
| 22 | Koch had hoped to remove Conner from the final trials , which begin on Saturday , so he could spend the next 25 days honing his chosen boat for the America 's Cup match against one of the two challengers — New Zealand or Il Moro de Venecia — which starts on May 9 . |
| 23 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 24 | I enjoyed it in a way , but B. was very impossible — she must have drunk nearly a bottle of brandy , and then at 9 o'clock I left and refused either to stay any longer or spend the night there . |
| 25 | I shall spend the next several years drinking decaffeinated coffee and swapping babygros with other NCT mothers while my partner bores his colleagues to death with intestinal flora between games of squash . |
| 26 | The initial necessity for building railway stations on the out-skirts of towns caused other companies to adopt the country-house model , with the idea that passengers would spend the night there before beginning their journey or after arriving . |
| 27 | With ready cash in your bank account you can spend the money as you want . |
| 28 | With the NatWest Hospital Income Plan , you can spend the money in whatever way you please . |
| 29 | Mrs Bessie Forde , then a member of the choir , recalls how any girl actively interested in church life could spend the week : Monday evening the Junior and Senior CE Societies ; Tuesday and Thursday evenings the GLB company , led by Mrs Waugh and Miss Mildred Forsythe , met regularly in Edenderry ) ; Wednesday the Midweek service ; Friday the choir practice and on Saturday a prayer meeting for the services on Sunday . |
| 30 | And then they 'll spend the night not much further on . ’ |