They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.

They had spent the morning revising the act, eliminating all the gay songs, patter and dancing with a view of the best public relations.

They had not only spent every cent -- they were in debt up to their necks, owing on everything they owned.

They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.

In They Do It with Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is revealed that, in her distant youth, Miss Marple spent time in Europe at a finishing school.

They improve sleep-related problems by shortening the time spent in bed before falling asleep, prolonging the sleep time, and, in general, reducing wakefulness.

They managed two second-place finishes but spent much of the decade in the cellar.

They currently play home games in the 20, 066 capacity Joe Louis Arena after having spent over 40 years playing in Olympia Stadium.

They continued their business until World War II, when he served in the Army Air Force, flying a P-47s and spent time as a prisoner of war.

They relocated to Los Angeles the following year, and after several lineup changes signed to Lee Hazlewood's LHI Records, where they spent late 1967 recording Safe at Home.

They were usually composed of wealthy " country gentlemen " ( i. e. landowners, farmers and merchants ): “ A country gentleman as a member of a Grand Jury ... levied the local taxes, appointed the nephews of his old friends to collect them, and spent them when they were gathered in.

They spent the night at the Comfort Inn in South Portland.

They also save time that would otherwise be spent shuffling, allowing several more hands per hour to be played and increasing the profitability of the table.

They could have spent up to 20 years in jail if the allegations were proved.

They travelled via Baffin Bay, Lancaster and Peel Sounds, and James Ross, Simpson and Rae Straits and spent two winters near King William Island in what is today Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada.

They met at Brooke House, Holborn, and spent two years scrutinising how the war had been financed.

They spent the spring and summer rehearsing at a house in Boyn Hill Road, Maidenhead.

They spent two whole days recuperating in one instance, and on another they rested for a day and two nights before pursuing their enemy.

They raided the Trojan allies and spent time farming the Thracian peninsula.

They spent their savings on drink to secure the favourable opinion of publicans and therefore further employment.

They spent the night recording what would become the Two Virgins album, after which, he said, they " made love at dawn.

They were married in Gibraltar on 20 March 1969, and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam campaigning with a week-long Bed-In for peace.

They spent the next 20 years together, and in 1874 they adopted a baby girl named Gertie.

They were childhood friends, since his father and her uncle, Phinneas Banning, were partners in the ownership of Catalina Island, where the families spent their summers.

They are commonly called " Christmas Bells ", because of the shape of their flowers and their flowering time, which coincides with Christmas in Australia.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

They were also used to help sell Christmas Seals.

They have re-recorded Commodores hits and have recorded a live album and a Christmas album.

They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.

They have also included holiday shows during the Christmas season.

They were historically an important part of the Christmas celebrations in Nevis, performed on Christmas Eve by small troupes consisting of five or six men accompanied by string bands from different parts of the island.

* 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

They first met when Bullock arranged for her ten-year-old godson to meet James as a Christmas present.

** Band Aid records the charity single " Do They Know It's Christmas?

They also reached number one just before Christmas 1986 with a version of " Caravan of Love ", originally a hit the year before for Isley-Jasper-Isley.

The album also featured the hit single " Bohemian Rhapsody ", which was number one in the UK for nine weeks and is the third-best-selling single of all time in the UK, surpassed only by Band Aid's " Do They Know It's Christmas?

They said Asiri had helped make the bomb used in the failed Detroit Christmas Day bomb attack and another PETN device used in a failed suicide attack against a top Saudi counter-terrorism official last year.

They were so similar in form to the sacred ones that many of them were parodied ( in parts or completely ) to sacred cantatas, for example in Bach's Christmas Oratorio.

They also designed the BBC One Christmas Idents for that year, which featured Wallace and Gromit to tie in with the showing of the new Wallace and Gromit film called A Matter of Loaf and Death on Christmas Day at 8: 30pm.

They also appeared in Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse.

They also show what made Scrooge the miser that he is, and why he dislikes Christmas.

Prior to the Live Aid concert, in November 1984 Sting performed " Do They Know It's Christmas?

Sting sang on " Do They Know It's Christmas?

They are supposed to hunt on specific nights ( the eves of St. John, St. Martin, Saint Michael the Archangel, All Saints, Christmas, New Year, Saint Agnes, Saint David, and Good Friday ), or just in the autumn and winter.

Bananarama was one of the few female groups featured on the Band Aid single, " Do They Know It's Christmas ?," and were the only artists to appear on both the original 1984 Band Aid, and the 1989, Band Aid II versions, with Siobhan Fahey only featured on the 1984 version.