Example sentences of "had spend [art] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening had turned fine in the past hour or so , although there were still dark clouds massed in the west , over where Ireland lay , but Karen had spent a useful day revising , and felt virtuous . |
| 2 | She had spent a sleepless night agonising over what had happened between herself and David and she found herself dreading what the atmosphere would be like between them . |
| 3 | He shuddered and replaced the glasses , before describing how he had spent a sleepless night worrying what he should do and in the morning had made up his mind to tackle MacQuillan again . |
| 4 | As it was a special fundraising dance instead of the regularly fortnightly hop , a three-piece band had been brought in to replace the usual stack of gramophone records and there was ‘ real food ’ — fishpaste sandwiches , sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks — which the ‘ committee ’ had spent the entire afternoon preparing . |
| 5 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 6 | The creator of the evening 's culinary triumphs emerged unshaven from a cavernous kitchen where he had spent the entire day cooking over a wood fire . |
| 7 | They had spent the entire evening chatting like old friends , while she had preserved her silence on the sidelines . |
| 8 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |
| 9 | Zvi Lipsky , the Burial Society Treasurer , had spent the whole afternoon trying to rid his mind of the annoyance of Arnold Wine 's advertisement in that morning 's Cork Examiner and now there was Wine himself , as bold as brass , sitting up in the front seats if you please , instead of at the back where he should be . |
| 10 | She had spent the previous day helping Janet to prepare Aunt Emily 's room for her mother . |
| 11 | D Company had spent the previous day digging a line of trenches to cover a series of vehicle checkpoints on all the main roads , and were just settling down for their first day 's occupation of the trenches . |
| 12 | The Princess had spent the previous day reading Love and Pain , Sandra 's book on violent relationships , and was able to speak with some understanding about domestic violence . |
| 13 | Believing me to be an intellectual , Beth had spent the previous night searching for suitable words to read before the laying-on of hands . |
| 14 | She was studying modern languages and had spent the previous year working in France to gain experience . |
| 15 | In 1956 Simon returned from a Christmas vacation to tell his bemused students that he and Newell had spent the festive season inventing a ‘ thinking machine ’ . |
| 16 | Fakrid and Jinkwa had spent an anxious hour waiting for the Doctor . |
| 17 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 18 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 19 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |