Example sentences of "have spend [art] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like his father before him , he has spent a lifetime fighting against Chaos warbands , raiding Norse , and marauding Orcs , not to mention the occasional forays of bandits from Kislev . |
| 2 | Nineteen-year-old Alan Parratt and his friend Paul Wilkins , 23 , has spent the evening drinking at the Bull Inn at Bentley without incident . |
| 3 | They 'd spent the winter working in India or the bazaar towns on the border and were returning now to their wives and children and their homes . |
| 4 | They had lain on the damp sand under one or other of Brighton 's twin piers , having spent the evening dancing to the music of Joe Loss . |
| 5 | He 'd never have spent a week milksopping around this godforsaken backwater on account of — one little bag of bones . ’ |
| 6 | They must have spent an hour sifting through letters , indentures and memoranda . |
| 7 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
| 8 | ( A headteacher friend was aghast to discover that his infant child had spent a fortnight rehearsing to be a road ! ) |
| 9 | Jane had spent the afternoon sitting by the paddling pool , with her feet in the water to ease the pain . |
| 10 | Eve had spent the day wandering around Dublin with a heavy heart . |
| 11 | The first of four complaints was that the trial judge exerted undue pressure by sending the jury out to consider their verdict at 5.28 p.m. after they had spent the day listening to the end of the prosecuting counsel 's closing address and the whole of the summing up , but their Lordships consider that this was a reasonable course to have taken . |
| 12 | He had already learned his lesson by painful experience ; the burn-like swelling on his left calf still throbbed occasionally to remind him of the morning a week ago when he had drawn on his trousers carelessly , to discover that a scorpion had spent the night nestling in one of the legs . |
| 13 | She had spent the evening smouldering with resentment after his callous dismissal of her father 's death , but now the biblical phrases Luke had employed earlier were suddenly hammering at her brain and heightening her agitation , although she suspected that she was playing into his hands by allowing them to do so . |
| 14 | Apart from everything else she had spent the morning standing in a stone-cold pool hoping to gather leeches which would suck into her bare legs . |
| 15 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 16 | Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place . |
| 17 | When you 've spent a lifetime looking after OTHER people , it 's nice to be pampered for a change . |
| 18 | I 've spent the night thinking about everything that happened , and I now realise that I made a mistake about you being involved with Harry Martin . ’ |
| 19 | AD LIB RALLY LATEST … over in Gloucester rugby fans have spent the weekend celebrating after a famous win over Saracens … but the price of victory for the cherry and whites was an injury to scrum half Marcus Hannaford which has put him in hospital and put the good name of the sport to the test |
| 20 | Fire-fighters have have spent the day sifting through the debris looking for clues . |
| 21 | Fire-fighters have have spent the day sifting through the debris looking for clues . |