Example sentences of "[vb past] spent the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 'd spent the whole evening trying half-heartedly to fight the inevitable attraction she felt for him . |
| 3 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 4 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 5 | Caro had spent the preceding day cleaning and tidying , but her mother had come determined to disapprove and did so easily . |
| 6 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 7 | She had spent the entire day with him . |
| 8 | As it was a special fundraising dance instead of the regularly fortnightly hop , a three-piece band had been brought in to replace the usual stack of gramophone records and there was ‘ real food ’ — fishpaste sandwiches , sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks — which the ‘ committee ’ had spent the entire afternoon preparing . |
| 9 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |
| 10 | The creator of the evening 's culinary triumphs emerged unshaven from a cavernous kitchen where he had spent the entire day cooking over a wood fire . |
| 11 | They had spent the entire evening chatting like old friends , while she had preserved her silence on the sidelines . |
| 12 | He had spent the entire afternoon in his office , pacing from the desk to the window , from the widow to door and back to the desk again . |
| 13 | it may sound impossible to many that a sergeant or a young junior officer coming straight from the Empire Training Scheme either in Canada or Rhodesia , was a far better prospect than shall we say a group captain or a wing commander , or even a squadron leader , who had spent the entire war in the training machine . |
| 14 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 15 | He too was small , and inclined to be timid , and Hazel and Fiver had spent the greater part of their last evening in the warren in persuading him to join them . |
| 16 | Polybius had spent the greater part of his time explaining to Greeks and Romans why the Romans were bound to win . |
| 17 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 18 | It appeared that Robertson and a few of his YC friends had spent the small hours of the morning in Regency Square banging on doors and shouting ‘ Britons awake ’ . |
| 19 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 20 | Horses were his love and he had spent the best years of his life working at the Galloway stables . |
| 21 | He had spent the latter part of the evening in the rather pleasant sitting room with her father , whose wish to please his handsomely connected and honourable guest had taken the form of a little boasting . |
| 22 | But analysts recalled that Mr Parra had spent the two weeks before the talks touring member states in an attempt to secure a deal that would remove at least 1 million bpd from the oil market as demand falls with the onset of warmer One analyst said that the delay in reaching agreement had unsettled the market . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By November of the year 655 or 656 — Bede gives 655 ( HE 111 , 24 ) but again this date may need to be emended in the same way as Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) — Penda was able to challenge Oswiu at the battle of the Winwaed with a mighty coalition , for he had spent the intervening thirteen years consolidating his position . |
| 25 | PATRICK RYAN , the Irish Catholic priest sought by Britain on terrorist charges , said yesterday he had spent the 14 years since dropping out of active priesthood raising money from foreign embassies for the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Deciding to become involved in politics , he first sought out Lord Plowden , one of the grandest figures of the Great and Good , who had spent the thirty years since the war as one of Whitehall 's most distinguished gofers . |
| 27 | As a consequence I really wish that I had spent the extra money and bought a slightly better machine . |
| 28 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 29 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 30 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |