Example sentences of "they have spend [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 2 | They had become suspicious after two men with Irish accents said they had spent the night in a pub that did not exist . |
| 3 | About half an hour before this was due to start you could meet up to twenty orangs swinging through the trees where they had spent the day in order to get their free meal . |
| 4 | Being Normans , they had spent the winter in relative cheerfulness , bedding women , hunting , and exploring those parts of the country unknown to them , in the absence of the winter wars they were accustomed to . |
| 5 | They have spent the morning in classrooms working through a command post exercise ; they practise passing information and responding to the numerous and varied problems that would be posed in a real headquarters . |
| 6 | He had barred Anne from the house after he had found out that the pair of them had spent an hour in the local pub after shopping one evening . |