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 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 spent Christmas at Sandringham House, before moving to Windsor Castle just outside London for much of the remainder of the war.

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 killed Big Charlie, dumped his body in my rose garden two nights ago.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

They stood there, just the two of them, in the rocking, shattering blast.

They were camped beside a large column-shaped boulder: a man, his lubra, and two children.

They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

They were like two strangers.

They hire a good deal of local labor, including two members of our Trustee Board.

They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.

They had lunch at a sidewalk cafe overlooking the intersection of two broad, busy, unpicturesque streets, and coming home they got lost in the Metro ; ;

They went shopping in the neighborhood, and bought two loaves of bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois, and some cheese, and a dozen eggs, and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place Redoute -- the first oranges they had seen since they landed.

They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness, became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended.

They stopped expecting her to die the next minute, but only in the next day or two.

They are two good colts of different type.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.

They are two sides of the same coin and the South will not change -- cannot change -- until the North changes.

They moved in a series of rhythmic fits and starts, a macabre dance -- two steps back, two steps forward, two steps back.

They were even, Anne and George, probably thinking themselves very considerate in not hinting that she really should cut out `` one or two countries '' and come home in August to get Cousin Emma's house ready before the teachers came to Tuxapoka in September.

They are not found in the sea with the exception of one or two frogs that live in brackish water in mangrove swamps.