Example sentences of "[vb past] spent [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 4 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She 'd spent the whole evening trying half-heartedly to fight the inevitable attraction she felt for him . |
| 7 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 8 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 9 | She 'd spent an uncomfortable and restless night , Fernando insisting on sleeping apart from her . |
| 10 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |
| 11 | Having left the Army , Drew Benedict had spent a great deal of Sukey 's money buying really good ponies . |
| 12 | They concerned my mother 's paternal grandfather who had spent a great many years in southern Africa — Natal and Cape Colony . |
| 13 | During dinner Sir Henry told us that he had spent a dull day and evening on his own . |
| 14 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 17 | The local overlords , the magnates of the neighbourhood , who had spent a frenzied few weeks petitioning and being petitioned by their would-be superiors , had not been invited and therefore sat at home , drinking behind closed doors and not available to enlighten their countrymen . |
| 18 | They had spent a pleasant evening , and James had been most solicitous when he took his leave . |
| 19 | Mr Allan told the court Say had spent a normal and happy weekend with his wife before the incident and had been given no indication she was leaving him . |
| 20 | We were on Egleton Reserve , the lagoon area of the Rutland Water Nature Reserve , and we had spent a blustery March morning wielding bill hooks to create 3-foot long sticks from coppiced pussy willow branches . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage . |
| 23 | For the novice , who had spent a mere two months in training in the city , far from home in Scottish pit village or Norfolk town , the introduction to beat work was like plunging into a cold shower . |
| 24 | Paisley and Craig had spent a good part of the previous year publicly disagreeing about the future of Stormont . |
| 25 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 26 | It is conceivable that Kim had spent a brief period with the CCP at Yenan in the later 1930s . |
| 27 | Afterwards we had spent a few stolen days at the ski resort of Grindelwald , in the shadow of the Eiger North Face . |
| 28 | He had been Sam 's best customer during his vacation , had spent a few pounds on skates and cycles , and had in fact hired these for days at a time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |