Example sentences of "spent [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in his career sales rep Woodward was involved in several matches where many thought there was more time than necessary spent off the field . |
| 2 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 3 | AFTER a familiar Eighties-style de-tox saga , Hiatt returned after years spent as the nearly-man with this scary , hilarious and durable collection . |
| 4 | 80% spent between the limits below : |
| 5 | Johnson ( 1971 , p. 283 ) points out that , historically , the emphasis ‘ in Britain has been almost exclusively on procedures which would enable Parliament to exercise a post facto check on the manner in which monies had been spent for the purposes approved by ( but not proposed by ) Parliament ’ . |
| 6 | We , it was when I went to , when I , we were doing something with maps when I was at school and they were trying to find out what , it was the , where the local rates where the money was spent for the local rates and one of projects was taken down the sewage works . |
| 7 | ‘ You could hope to convert a £125,000 barn for Pounds 80,000 , but by the time you move in you would probably find you have spent nearer the cost price of the barn . ’ |
| 8 | When a student makes such a transfer , the time devoted to the one degree would normally be counted as time spent towards the other . |
| 9 | It is easy to say that the time spent considering the Matisse is time better spent than that spent considering a Gerasimov , let alone a Bouguereau . |
| 10 | However , a little time should be spent considering the position of the dealer who sells his goods to the finance company . |
| 11 | Much of the time available to the other language tutors appointed had to be spent of the vital tasks of practical translation work and the making of term banks and so on — leaving little time for broader ‘ language awareness ’ issues to be addressed . |
| 12 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 13 | From 1841 her childhood was spent near the centre of Manchester , though her father , who became a senior partner in his Manchester shipping firm , prospered and was in 1855 able to move to the far more select area of Whalley Range . |
| 14 | We aim to provide a unique and interesting evening spent amongst the ghosts of the past & present . |
| 15 | Will he ensure that the money is spent throughout the county ? |
| 16 | It will be spent throughout the police area , except in those regions that do not come within the urban crime catchment area — |
| 17 | Yet , on the day when Harriet saw her off on Penzance station she was afraid that the new way of life Liza had now embarked upon would prove very far removed from that which she had spent under the dedicated care of her former headmistress , Miss Everett . |
| 18 | After years spent under the thumb of finance ministries , an increasing number have been given independence from politicians . |
| 19 | The convictions were spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 . |
| 20 | But Cameron felt spent with the effort of the past hour and would say only , ‘ Let us see if anything went on at Weem . ’ |
| 21 | The dancers and music then swell to fill the stage again , ultimately to depart all sorrow spent with the child-like figure lifted high in the hands of one man and carried away out of sight whilst another dancer kneels low in homage as the music resolves the picture into a great Amen . |
| 22 | Rather more fun and doubtless just as fruitful was the Odyssey Theatre Company 's research for their Macbeth : six weeks spent with the support of the Scottish Arts Council on the Indonesian island of Bali . |
| 23 | Time could be usefully spent with the dining hall supervisor and the cook to talk about the sorts of food children like . |
| 24 | On the day following the night she had spent with the gentle sisters , her father had stormed in and demanded that she return home , and she had replied , ‘ What ! |
| 25 | Others seemed genuinely to be pleased with the way things were going , while in a third group discussion centred on how much more usefully the time could be spent with the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 26 | Madeleine was awarded for her many hours spent with the elderly , helping with cooking , shopping or driving , as well as her work for the social services . |
| 27 | The only time the mother spent with the boy was during meal-times and she had become so anxious about him eating sufficient quantities that she hovered over him and interfered with his eating pattern . |
| 28 | Obviously the decrease in the amount of time spent with the first-born will have an effect but many parents are aware of this and make a great effort to give attention to the older child . |
| 29 | In the time Duroc had spent with the group , Biron , their leader , had revised the Violent Tendency manifesto countless times , while the scientific wing of the movement , Neumann and Alix , had developed some intriguing ramifications on recombinant DNA which , when injected into a shamburger , would cause the meatoid pulp to meld with the enzymes of any given stomach and expand its mass one hundredfold . |
| 30 | Barbara , whose previous experiences in that line had been few but enjoyable , remembered with guilty nostalgia the handful of nights she had spent with the managing director at the Royal Albion in Brighton . |