Example sentences of "have [adv] spend [art] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nordstrom has already spent a year researching the concept . |
| 2 | But in fact Madame was often back at her desk at ten a.m. , having already spent an hour tending her body , her face and her hair . |
| 3 | Don Regan , the blustering ex-Wall Street chief of staff , had attended the crucial meetings of the previous August and September ; but he had apparently spent the September meeting more bothered by McFarlane 's pronunciation of ‘ bona fides ’ as ‘ bonerfydies ’ than by anything he picked up about weapons shipments . |
| 4 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 5 | He brought laboratory reports on the undertaker 's clothing and other items which had been sent to him and he had already spent an hour examining the Wheel . |
| 6 | One is Selby which we 've just spent the morning discussing and for very very different reasons the other is Harrogate . |
| 7 | Both had clearly spent the morning raiding the dictionary of euphemism . |
| 8 | Consensys , also with offices in San Antonio , Texas and Reading in the UK , already offers a standard SVR4 implementation , though it had previously spent a year getting that release into product shape after taking delivery from Unix System Labs . |