Example sentences of "i have spend a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody in the audience expects to hear a certian solo in each song , and so would I if I 'd spent a small fortune on a ticket . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 4 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 5 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 6 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 7 | My position as warden means that I have to spend a fair amount of time in the office , dealing with correspondence and the large amount of information that our fieldwork generates . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Granted that I have spent a considerable portion of my theoretical energies over the years criticizing reductionism , should I even be asking this question at all ? |