Example sentences of "[verb] spent a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Network South East has spent a quarter of million pounds converting what used to be staff accommodation , into a kindergarten . |
| 2 | Waste Minimization and Containment Services Inc ( WMC ) of Cleveland , Ohio , has spent a year and a half and $750,000 harnessing the intriguing physics of CO2 . |
| 3 | Denis , 71 , has spent a fortune on his quest since the 1940s . |
| 4 | He estimates he has spent a total of 20,000 hours in front of flickering images on a silver screen . |
| 5 | Since that time the club has spent a total of £1.7m on Barry Horne , Paul Rideout and Preki . |
| 6 | White Waltham 's Joe Austin has spent a decade restoring this all-wood 1938 Chilton D.W.1 . |
| 7 | Charles was too sensitive for his liking , too intellectual , too philosophical , and although Charles adored his father and has spent a lifetime trying to please him and be as he would like , he has never really succeeded . |
| 8 | It is a view from the terraces written by a fan who has spent a lifetime supporting two of the world 's great lost causes , the Scotland national team and St Johnstone FC . |
| 9 | There is no evidence that he has actually coached his chosen club but one feels that he has spent a lifetime imbibing its history . |
| 10 | Like his father before him , he has spent a lifetime fighting against Chaos warbands , raiding Norse , and marauding Orcs , not to mention the occasional forays of bandits from Kislev . |
| 11 | She is trying out exciting sports she has spent a lifetime wanting to try . |
| 12 | I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry , especially at the coalface . |
| 13 | " His business and his horses — and then it looks as though he has spent a lot of money on the stables . " |
| 14 | ‘ He has spent a lot of time showing you how his welfare works . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The 56-year-old from New Zealand has spent a month in Northern Ireland with the family he never knew he had . |
| 18 | ‘ You are an angel , Daddy , ’ said Sheila , and she added dreamily , ‘ I expect Clytemnestra has spent a penny by now . ’ |
| 19 | Then someone told him you 'd spent a night together on your way back from Charwelton . ’ |
| 20 | We 'd spent a couple of days practising the relay . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He 'd spent a lot of time just wandering in the hills . |
| 23 | After that he 'd spent a lot of time with Jekub , poking around , finding out about it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Perdita and Trace had detested each other on sight and , together with Randy , Trace spent a lot of time when they were n't screwing , winding Perdita up . |
| 28 | He joined P&O in 1988 as Assistant to the Chairman of P&O Properties , Tim Harding , having spent a year as Finance Manager with Prudential Bache Capital Funding Ltd . |
| 29 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 30 | 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 . |