Example sentences of "have spend [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 2 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has spent a great deal of his speech talking about the Labour party 's spending plans . |
| 3 | ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir Patrick has spent a large part of his life living in Africa and we are an African company , so to speak , ’ says Cluff . |
| 5 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 6 | We have had to spend a disproportionate amount of money on marketing and selling . ’ |
| 7 | Having spent a healthy proportion of his personal wealth in a bid to provide a Premier Division platform for the club , figures show the public are not responding through the Dens Park turnstiles . |
| 8 | Having spent a great deal of time on learning to hover in the ‘ safe base ’ position , you will reach a point where your carefully acquired reflexes begin to work against you . |
| 9 | The two officers outside , having spent a great deal of time and effort befriending the young boxer dogs Lila kept to ward off unwanted guests , scratched at the kitchen door in imitation of the dogs . |
| 10 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 11 | It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering . |
| 12 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |
| 13 | Having left the Army , Drew Benedict had spent a great deal of Sukey 's money buying really good ponies . |
| 14 | Paisley and Craig had spent a good part of the previous year publicly disagreeing about the future of Stormont . |
| 15 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 16 | Pinza was owned by Sir Victor Sassoon ( who had spent a huge amount of money over many years trying to win the Derby ) and trained by Norman Bertie . |
| 17 | It appeared that Robertson and a few of his YC friends had spent the small hours of the morning in Regency Square banging on doors and shouting ‘ Britons awake ’ . |
| 18 | Last year , the Authority was severely criticised by a Commons Energy Select Committee report which claimed that the nuclear industry had spent an inordinate amount of money on publicising itself . |
| 19 | Wembley 's Martin Corrie said : ‘ We 've spent a great deal of money substantially improving our toilets and we 're in the process of installing additional facilities for ladies . |
| 20 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 21 | Because we 've had we 've spent an awful lot of erm money and time in taking people into the system who say they will have a car when |
| 22 | And as a kid , you live very Technicolour experiences , and it all influences how you live the rest of your life , and so since all that horror , I 've spent the major part of my life making a safe place for myself . |
| 23 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 24 | Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year . |
| 25 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 26 | Diane always tried to keep her weekends for spending with Jed , but because of the rain they had to spend the early part of the day in their own below-stairs lounge , watching the Saturday morning cartoons on television . |
| 27 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 28 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 29 | I have spent a good deal of time trying to improve cost-efficiency without detracting too greatly from the service you enjoy , and I trust this is an acceptable compromise . |
| 30 | These will vary from Compact to Compact but you will be expected to show : a ) that your attendance and punctuality have been consistently good , b ) that you can work reliably at school , c ) that you have spent a specific amount of time on Work Experience , d ) that you have a positive sense of responsibility to your school and the wider community . |