Example sentences of "spend time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACET volunteers work as part of a team and provide help in many different ways to ensure that people do n't spend time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 2 | That help makes all the difference to people sick with AIDS who want to stay at home , rather than spend time unnecessarily in hospital . |
| 3 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 4 | The programme alleged that the living conditions and communal facilities at the resort , built by Billy Butlin in the 1960s to offer a week 's holiday for a week 's pay , were ‘ so squalid and dangerous ’ that no sensible person would spend time or money on a holiday there . |
| 5 | When he and Helen could spend time alone , their passionate unconsummated loving convinced him that but for the ‘ rich simplicity of childhood ’ that characterized her , her ‘ capacity for content ’ , her ‘ virginity of sentiment and soul ’ , their love-making would be dangerous , ‘ if my nature were more masculine and daring ’ . |
| 6 | Alicia says you should spend time talking to a breeder before diving in to buy one , to be sure it is the breed for you . |
| 7 | If you are losing children do spend time with the dissatisfied parents to explore not just the event that has brought the situation to a head but dig deep for other areas of dissatisfaction , hostility or conflict . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the reasons I do it , ’ he explains ‘ is because my wife and I can spend time alone together away from the family , feel young again ( they 're both in their early 40's ) , and have adventures . ’ |
| 9 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 10 | On other occasions , we would spend time together at the weekends . |
| 11 | The fact that we must spend time in activities or surroundings which we find distasteful in support of a relationship is the cost of that relationship . |
| 12 | This was not to say that he did n't spend time with the army , lending vigorous help as the trains of oxen dragged the batteries into position , and the wagonloads of food and fodder , weapons and powder bumped fifty miles south-east from Kyrenia to where Famagusta lay , lodged in its bay , divided by ninety broad sea miles from Syria . |
| 13 | Whether or not attitudes changed in the next ten years , by the Act 1 & 2 Victoria cap 110 of 1837 abolished arrest by ‘ mesne process ’ by which , as seen , a debtor could spend time in prison before his case had been tried in court and judgement made on it . |
| 14 | who would he spend time with ? |
| 15 | We saw less and less of each other and fought like tigers when we did spend time together . |
| 16 | Announcing the Christmas plan , a palace spokesman said : ‘ During the Christmas holiday , Prince William and Prince Harry will spend time with each of their parents individually . |
| 17 | Some roommates had special arrangement with each other so they could all spend time alone with their ‘ special friend ’ , even sleeping with them . |
| 18 | This meant the Duchess got a free air ticket to Sydney , Australia , and could spend time with Andrew while his ship was in southern waters . |
| 19 | Reviewing the literature Every researcher , of whatever status , should spend time reading what other people have written about the area in which they are interested . |
| 20 | When it is apparent that external circumstances have changed , you have to decide whether to cry chicken and run too early , or continue to reinforce and spend time , money and ever increasing numbers of your best people , who are invariably sucked into the most difficult areas of the battle , trying to fight a war which you can not win . |
| 21 | Despite these research findings all of us do spend time in groups and a variety of processes and procedures have been developed by researchers and consultants to improve the effectiveness of decision-making in groups . |
| 22 | Guests can spend time by the sea — the sandy beaches of Senigallia are only 20 miles away — or explore the major Umbrian cities , like Gubbio and Assisi , which are all within an hour 's drive of the hotel . |
| 23 | I can be a normal , family man before and after a race , I can spend time talking to fans or whatever . |
| 24 | I love shopping for excellent ingredients and would rather spend time on this than anything else . |
| 25 | You must spend time preparing the content of your talk . |
| 26 | So , a tiny red dot placed specifically on a large white area becomes a work of art , but it 's also a criticism that art is viewed too reverently since people will spend time and money to trek to view , maybe worship , the little red dot on the large white area in an art gallery but will swiftly get the handbag removed from the seat cos they want to sit down ! |
| 27 | Although we will not spend time on it , ‘ external culture ’ enters our sample firm in the form of enormous variety — personnel on a production line speaking ten or more languages other than English , for instance . |
| 28 | You can , of course , spend time on their care ; working amongst herbs in a herb garden is a particular pleasure to which fragrance , nostalgia , usefulness and the anticipatory satisfaction of one 's stomach all contribute . |
| 29 | You do n't not spend time on someone just because they are n't about any longer . |
| 30 | Farmers should spend time talking to retailers in order to build up a much closer dialogue between all the links in the country 's chain |