Example sentences of "i had spend a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking .
2 I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’
3 The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales .
4 And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people .
5 I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire .
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