Sentence examples for match spent from inspiring English sources

— Colt McCoy, the University of Texas quarterback with a gunslinger's name and a game to match, spent most of Monday night being battered and beaten up by Ohio State.

James Anderson, part of a 13-man team for this match, spent the entire morning session off the field and bowled just four overs in the afternoon – the result of England's careful management of his workload.

Smith, who passed a 1,000 first-class runs during the match, spent over five-and-a-hours at the crease and hit 16 fours in his innings.

The visitors, unchanged for a third successive match, spent the opening stages camped around the Sunderland penalty area but the Black Cats got nine men behind the ball and ensured openings were at a premium.

Rhodes, who missed the match, spent the game watching Verity and seemed convinced afterwards that his successor had been found.

The first is that Congress has to match spending cuts with revenue increases.

Only it can deliver legal imperatives to meet certain needs and financial imperatives to match spend to budget.

At a time of military conflict and enormous expenses for homeland security, the Republican-led Congress has generally ignored the need to match spending with revenue in passing the president's $1.7 trillion tax cuts.

But anyone who did watch those matches spent their time well.

He sells gasoline pumps for an American Company in France and when here for the matches spends most of his time on business rather than tennis.

The emerging generation of fans – who watch more football adverts than football matches, spend more time on the Fifa 12 loading screen than in the game proper – could have found no more fitting idol.