Example sentences of "spent [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been too easily assumed that strong representation by teachers through their unions ( which usually meant representation by powerful and semi-professional members who spent little time in class-rooms ) would somehow guarantee the active interest and participation of large numbers of ordinary teachers . |
| 2 | I spent little time at home now , so I was unable to be a detailed witness to the Great Love in the same account-keeping way as before . |
| 3 | True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends . |
| 4 | In Rabbi Cohen 's the exodus followed very soon after the last Amen , for the Rabbi spent little time in idle conversation and his withdrawal from the room was the signal for the other worshippers to leave . |
| 5 | The rafters , weary and hungry after their hours of fighting the turbulent Mohaka by paddling their way between rocks and river boulders , spent little time beneath the hot showers and in changing into warm , dry clothes . |
| 6 | Bernard spent little time at home . |
| 7 | For example , the Audit Commission ( an arm of the treasury ) spent some time in 1987/8 with myself and others in a police research department assessing an OSU ( Operational Support Unit ) administrative system which they claimed had ‘ revolutionized police decision making ’ and released manpower for patrol equal to £6.358 million . |
| 8 | He still has sufficient force , passion and reputation to get his way if he puts his case forcefully enough and yesterday he spent some time in conclave with Carrick , Neil Hartley and coach Doug Padgett . |
| 9 | That worried us as there were several great skuas working the sky above the bog , and we spent some time waiting for the goose to return before setting off again . |
| 10 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 11 | When Nigel came back he usually spent some time checking his pulse rate . |
| 12 | You eventually managed to get a flight to Milan , where you stayed in hiding , and then you spent some time near Lake Como ? |
| 13 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 14 | They spent some time driving around before the woman persuaded the kidnapper to let her take the child into a shop to get some baby food . |
| 15 | He spent some time afterwards making a special metal umbrella . |
| 16 | Stirling and Tait managed to make it north to the escarpment where they spent some time observing enemy traffic on the coastal road below . |
| 17 | Throughout 1969 I spent some time each month visiting schools , and attending yet more meetings in Curzon Street . |
| 18 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 19 | He spent some time in Rome , later Florence and then , in 1923 or 1924 — he was n't quite sure — he ‘ fetched up ’ in Naples . |
| 20 | I believe the police spent some time asking him questions but he had obviously not seen you so that was that . |
| 21 | The male prison population vastly outnumbers the female ; in 1979 , 143,000 males spent some time in prison , in comparison to 8,000 females . |
| 22 | When I first came , I spent some time with Sue , she 's the manager . |
| 23 | After leaving 617 , J. spent some time with the Canadians in 6 Group , and then on to 4 Group at Marston Moor , before the war ended . |
| 24 | ‘ We spent some time in there when we were kids , did n't we Yant ? ’ |
| 25 | Although he seems to have the hang of it pretty well , a Harvard physicist named Thomas McMahon spent some time relearning this process on a computer . |
| 26 | He spent some time expressing his preference , for tactical reasons , for smaller neutron bombs before developing his argument . |
| 27 | He spent some time climbing about and peering in all directions . |
| 28 | They spent some time telling him what they thought of him . |
| 29 | I then spent some time trying to teach Clive how to breathe ! |
| 30 | Pammy Jane spent some time with her parents after the split before moving to the Highgrove estate near Tetbury , Glos . |