1.   A few months ago they had a big row, and Steve drove off and spent the weekend in London.

2.   He likes to spend summer weekends watching cricket.

3.   I spent the weekend driving the kids here, there, and everywhere.

4.   I spent the weekend feeling miserable.

5.   I spent the weekend sorting out my tax affairs.

6.   On several occasions we spent weekends working furiously hard in small groups at drafts of attainment targets and programmes of study.

7.   The embassy spokesman said she had spent the weekend on a family visit to Britain, where she was born and raised.

8.   They regard a last-minute request to spend the weekend collating figures in Darlington as proof positive of their triumph against chauvinism.

9.   They spent the weekend in Scotland shooting grouse.

10.   We did not venture near the fields again until a friend with children came to spend a weekend.