Example sentences of "to spend [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a customer wants to spend time deciding on a holiday we are prepared to spend that time . |
| 2 | What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work . |
| 3 | As his course of study at the School of Architecture , University of Manchester , demanded a period of practical training in an architect 's office , William Assheton decided to spend this time working in Coventry so that in his spare time he could design and supervise the conversion of the chapel into a dwelling for his own use . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's an opportunity , ’ says the brochure , ‘ to spend some time doing voluntary work . |
| 5 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 6 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you want to spend some time on those ECG tracings this afternoon , George ? |
| 8 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 9 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 10 | Since the economic advantages are overwhelming and a greater and more expert level of service can be expected it is appropriate and justifiable to spend some time on supplier selection . |
| 11 | They would be let to people who , for one reason or another , wanted to spend some time in the country away from the pressures of the modern world and are prepared to live very simply . |
| 12 | Character oozes from it , and I am content to spend some time studying its many features before I set up a rod . |
| 13 | Coleridge was under contract to the Morning Post , and had to spend some time in London ; but in October 1799 he walked in the Lake District with William and John Wordsworth , and after a certain period of indecision arrived at Greta Hall , Keswick , with his wife and family in August 1800 . |
| 14 | I was going out later and Sophie and I were going to spend some time on the beach with the two girls . |
| 15 | ‘ Then it is possible that he will be planning to spend some time in Tbilisi . |
| 16 | He was a London model and , since she is in Paris to spend some time with her girlfriend , she was n't into the idea . |
| 17 | Before starting a serious conversation it is advisable to spend some time at the beginning checking ways of communication , and to establish if there is any indication of deafness , blindness , or speech difficulties . |
| 18 | We are , therefore , going to spend some time getting to know the real you . |
| 19 | I am going to spend some time with my family . ’ |
| 20 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 21 | The hide is a good place to spend some time , not only to see the more common bird species such as heron , coot and several kinds of tit , but you might also be lucky enough to spot less common birds such as the great spotted woodpecker and the kingfisher . |
| 22 | It is a good idea to spend some time initially on familiarising yourself with your nursing library , and any specialist collections which may be of use to you . |
| 23 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 24 | Barraga ( 1976 ) claims that ‘ In order to stimulate interest in visual development , and in learning to see more things , many children may need to spend some time visually investigating objects in the classroom or in the natural environment to broaden their visual experiences . ’ |
| 25 | But however enjoyable , reading about islands is nowhere near as rewarding as visiting them , and I consider myself fortunate in having been able to spend some time on the north Atlantic islands of Iceland , the Faroe Islands and that most remote of the British islands , St Kilda . |
| 26 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 27 | A core programme , coupled with an opportunity to spend some time in the patient area of their choice , is most likely to meet the needs of the individual . |
| 28 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 29 | Jean-Claude had warned me that Otto would want to spend some time at the gastronomic festival being held in Romorantin . |
| 30 | If you do n't already have goals that you are aiming for a ( at work , at home , and in leisure ) , it is advisable for your to spend some time and work out what you really want to achieve . |