Example sentences of "have spend a [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since that time the club has spent a total of £1.7m on Barry Horne , Paul Rideout and Preki . |
| 2 | " His business and his horses — and then it looks as though he has spent a lot of money on the stables . " |
| 3 | Well this , who is must be related to David , anyway , erm they bought the house facing the o is it Old Cross , Old Gate bridge and has spent a lot of money on doing it up , li just over three million of course the whole of the downstairs was flooded today . |
| 4 | David Murray became chairman at Ibrox in 1988 and , asked about the Liverpool manager 's record in the transfer market , said : ‘ Sure Graeme has spent a lot of cash but he 's sold well as well . |
| 5 | ‘ He has spent a lot of time showing you how his welfare works . |
| 6 | The difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher , and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 7 | Really it 's a problem of time and resources erm the difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 8 | We 'd spent a couple of days practising the relay . |
| 9 | another sort of six marks or maybe eight marks for the the end bit of the question , erm you 'd spent a bit of time on this . |
| 10 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |
| 11 | He 'd spent a lot of time just wandering in the hills . |
| 12 | After that he 'd spent a lot of time with Jekub , poking around , finding out about it . |
| 13 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 14 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 15 | Because I 've had to spend a couple of nights in a porchway ? ’ |
| 16 | However , having spent a total of £41million on the redevelopment by then , the union would obviously seek to have as many sell-out rugby events as it could reasonably muster in a season . |
| 17 | Having spent a couple of hours checking his rabbit snares around the low Severn grounds , the two fat rabbits now secure in his waist bag would indicate that this could be his lucky night It was now one thirty a.m . |
| 18 | And he is no stranger to Rodney Parade , having spent a couple of seasons there from 1985 , moving from Newbridge , before flirting briefly with London Welsh . |
| 19 | These good relationships are often the result of contingent factors such as living geographically close , sharing a particular common interest or ( in the case of cousins especially ) having spent a lot of time together in childhood ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , ch. 12 ) . |
| 20 | , who joined us in May as national account manager , has also gained extensive experience in the food industry having spent a number of years working in technical and commercial roles with leading UK food and flavour manufacturers — being one of them . |
| 21 | At that time , , who had been a graduate of , and teacher in , my department at U.C.L. , had accepted a chair at U.C.L. , and was about to return to his old department once again , having spent a number of years at the University of Durham . |
| 22 | He must have spent a lot of time out in the sun — running ? |
| 23 | Clare was , well , desirable to say the bloody least , and they must have spent a lot of time together writing speeches , or whatever it is politicians do . |
| 24 | The vast majority hire boots and skis so you do n't have to spend a lot of money on gear before you find out if skiing is for you . |
| 25 | You do n't have to spend a lot of money to look just nice looking I mean d' you know , er just you know nice appearing , clean appearing or something like that that will do and beauty most of it its come from inside . |
| 26 | Pilots do n't have to spend their waking hours obsessed with danger , but they do have to spend a lot of time rolling the word safety around their minds . |
| 27 | So for the majority of formulae that 's all you need to do to make the formulae copyable , so when I got this extra product to insert just insert the rows , copy the formula down and that change is made very quickly indeed , I do n't have to spend a lot of time understanding and editing the formulae . |
| 28 | You will have to spend a lot of time preventing tricky scenarios from getting any worse or keeping antagonistic individuals apart . |
| 29 | If I worked hard and cracked the Agenda system , I would end up either having to spend a lot of money to continue , or seeing the time and work wasted . |
| 30 | somebody 's going to have to spend a bit of time with them over the week about the presume I 'm gon na have the time |