Example sentences of "spend [pos pn] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those awaiting execution will spend their last days almost entirely alone . |
| 2 | BR 's motive-power policy was rapidly turned on its head with the abandonment of two sacred principles : sectorisation saw the end of the common-user policy for locomotives and passenger multiple units : and no longer was it accepted that life-expired main-line cast-offs should spend their last days propping up secondary services . |
| 3 | Lawrence spent his final days in the company of Mabel Dodge Luhan — the heiress whose home in Greenwich Village had been the spawning ground of some of America 's most famous pre-World War I radical and literary figures — and , thus , provided an oddly suitable setting for the desolate position in which Hopper found himself . |
| 4 | They were joined by John McCarthy , who spent his first days of freedom at the airbase after five and a half years as a hostage . |
| 5 | Among the more bizarre events after Mr Hancock 's demise was a police swoop on the quarters where he spent his last days . |
| 6 | KING CHARLES I spent his last days and very last night as a free man in Stamford at the house of Alderman Richard Wolph in Barn Hill ( on the site of the present Stukeley House ) . |
| 7 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |
| 8 | ‘ Your sister 's son spent his last days with me . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Hoby died at a great age in 1609 , after spending her final days painstakingly and efficiently planning her own funeral , down to the minutest detail . |
| 10 | There are , of course , those who have infinitely more experience that Squidgey when it comes to caring and sharing with people who are spending their last days in AIDS wards and/or hospices . |
| 11 | This means they have to spend their first days of life in hospital and ca n't go home for several weeks . |
| 12 | They were to spend their last days there with her aunt Nicolette 's family in Neuilly where they had just moved . |
| 13 | The sad fact is that many of these ‘ irruptive ’ birds spend their last days in the islands , because if they do not move on immediately while they still have the strength , the more time they spend searching for what is n't there , the less chance there is of their being able to make another long sea crossing . |