Example sentences of "[verb] spend [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 2 | I say again that in Northern Ireland the Housing Executive has spent a great deal more per capita than is the case elsewhere and that can be seen by anyone who visits public sector housing in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has spent a great deal of his speech talking about the Labour party 's spending plans . |
| 4 | ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images . |
| 5 | Yet even DEC , which has spent a small fortune debugging and porting it , has loosened its bear hug . |
| 6 | Mia , waking up to find her companion still sleeping , hardly gives the impression that she has spent a passionate night . |
| 7 | ‘ Sir Patrick has spent a large part of his life living in Africa and we are an African company , so to speak , ’ says Cluff . |
| 8 | Warwick International , the TAED products manufacturer , has spent a further 140m on its Mostyn site . |
| 9 | Traditionally , her top class has spent a residential week at Paignton Zoo and she is determined that , given the restriction on charging for activities within school hours , the tradition will be maintained ad infinitum . |
| 10 | Mr Major 's visit to Barcelona for the last two days of the Games will mean he has spent an astonishing 80 days out of recession gripped Britain in the 20 months since he came to power . |
| 11 | It is a sad sight for not only is it a famous Belfast landmark but to anyone who has spent an enjoyable evening there taking in anything from a popular musical to a classic play it must feel like a personal loss . |
| 12 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
| 13 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 14 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 15 | The man next door has spent the last year making a kennel for his dog . |
| 16 | The Scottish Gallery has an exhibition of paintings by Roderick Carmichael , an Edinburgh-born artist who has spent the last 10 years in Australia . |
| 17 | Instead , she has spent the last two years working on a book chronicling Basque life through its kitchens and markets . |
| 18 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 19 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 20 | VIA also has to pay heavily to use the tracks and it is almost universally agreed that CP in particular has spent the last 12 years over-charging and trying to find ways of clearing the passenger trains from the path of its lucrative freights . |
| 21 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that join Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 22 | She has spent the last 18 months researching and writing the kind of cookbook which brings all the old fun and the sheer sensual pleasure back into cooking — and eating . |
| 23 | A quiet , bespectacled and sceptical American , Robert Morris , has spent the last few terms testing ‘ respondents ’ ( the academics prefer this term to psychic , witch-doctor , shaman or whoever else they are analysing ) . |
| 24 | Coltart has spent the last year productively , though , playing on the Swedish Golf Tour . |
| 25 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |
| 26 | Bob acquired the Blackburn-built Swordfish in September 1970 and has spent the last 22 years painstakingly rebuilding the aircraft . |
| 27 | UK fourth-generation language company Cyberscience Plc , of Hoddesdon , Herts , has spent the last three years making its transition from proprietary Data General technology over to open systems , and now reports that the majority of its sales are for Unix-based systems . |
| 28 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 29 | Quintus has spent the last 18 months developing similar customised solutions for a clutch of customers including Intel Corp , HaL Systems , Exxon Corp and Hewlett-Packard which is setting up a worldwide internal help desk with its software . |
| 30 | Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) . |