Example sentences of "[pers pn] have spent [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody in the audience expects to hear a certian solo in each song , and so would I if I 'd spent a small fortune on a ticket . ’ |
| 2 | So I 'd spent the intervening three years elsewhere , writing for a fun pop paper and then polishing turds in the press office of a hateful record company . |
| 3 | I 'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him . |
| 4 | But he went on to say he knew I 'd spent the night at your place . |
| 5 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 11 | As a consequence I really wish that I had spent the extra money and bought a slightly better machine . |
| 12 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
| 13 | It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee . |
| 14 | The following day he arrived to collect me from the hotel where I had spent the night . |
| 15 | I never have properly recalled how I had spent the larger part of my time in Préfleur when Jean-Claude was away . |
| 16 | It was new , expensive and identical to the one that occupied a full page in the current Vogue , so I had spent the day at a crime fiction convention feeling more confident about my appearance than usual . |
| 17 | I had spent the night , or part of it , on a patch of earth in alphabet-land — Avenue B , deep down on the East Side . |
| 18 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 19 | With only her voice as a clue , I had spent the afternoon ransacking the village for elegant snacks and found them : madeleines , ratafias , petits fours . |
| 20 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
| 21 | I 've spent a lot of time and effort getting this far . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time in Paris , ’ explains Caine , ‘ and the result is I 'm now a committed Francophile . |
| 23 | I 've spent a lot of time on this . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 25 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 26 | I 've spent a year … polishing brass , chipping rust , and slapping paint on bulkheads , and so far as being a deck officer goes , I 'm just where I started . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've spent a long , long time thinking about this . |
| 28 | I 've spent a fortune in this place and all I 'm asking for is a reduction in the service charge . ’ |
| 29 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time on the Heath lately , ’ Bill says . |