Example sentences of "[pers pn] have spent [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 2 | I 'd spent all my post-Oxford life in London hospitals . |
| 3 | I 'd spent all day going there had n't I , half a day going there . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 6 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 7 | Hell , I 'd spent most of my life dedicating myself to my work . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd spent most of my life building that career . |
| 9 | The lake grew narrow and we were at Enniskillen , where once I had spent many happy days at the Railway Hotel and Irish musical nights at the Cove Bar . |
| 10 | I had spent many years teaching the EFATO to PPL students , but this was different . |
| 11 | It read as follows : I had spent many weary hours and weary days of negotiation before arriving at the point where I withdrew from acting as an adviser to the profession because the consultants had embarked on strike action . |
| 12 | I had spent many happy hours with Frank , recording details not generally known to the public of his own and his father 's involvement with the BCR . |
| 13 | It was impossible to evaluate my effectiveness as a role model , facilitator and practical teacher in terms of the time involved , but I was reassured by the fact I had spent 10 per cent of my time formally teaching students — although some nurses would rather spend this time at the bedside . |
| 14 | I had spent six months at the Admiralty 's expense at Cambridge acquiring an interpretership in Russian . |
| 15 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 16 | Uncomfortable , sore , frightened , I had spent all my pity . |
| 17 | I had spent four hours catching nothing and he simply swooped down and lifted a trout of at least 2lb from under my nose . |
| 18 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 19 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 20 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 21 | I had spent three years researching contemporary mysticism , and it was through John Michel , a colleague of mine who was an authority on Druid mythology and the ancient sites of Britain , that I first met Ringo . |
| 22 | Before that , I had spent three years as an education officer at Marwell Zoo Park , followed by several months as a wildlife officer at Lilongwe Nature Sanctuary in Malawi . |
| 23 | Then I was showered with the realisation that I had spent half a working day thinking these thoughts , during which time , if I had put a foot wrong , I would have immediately proved , to some people 's satisfaction , the innate unsuitability of women for this kind of work ; and that clinched it ; and I wrote the letter and confirmed the complaint . |
| 24 | This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve , whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study . |
| 25 | It was wonderful , the shops were excellent , it was only the first day of our holiday and I had spent most of my money . |
| 26 | I 've spent one and ten pence , old money and a donation of course . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've spent all my life in general PR , but it was about eight years ago I decided that there was room for a specialist agency , not really a PR firm , which was concerned entirely with government relations . |
| 28 | The suitcases stand in the hallway , repacked with clothes I 've spent all night washing and pressing . |
| 29 | Let all the damn horses out — I 've spent all morning going round the lanes rounding the brutes up again ! ‘ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've spent all my time trying to face facts , being in touch with people . |