Example sentences of "[vb base] spent [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 've spent more time trying it . |
| 2 | I 've spent enough time watching her paint me ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And now I 've spent enough time here — I have clients to see . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 5 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 6 | And you 've spent some time doing this , do n't you , Adam ? |
| 7 | Yet Barclays and Lloyds have spent much time and energy privately rubbishing Switch , in efforts to promote their own debit cards . |
| 8 | It is a tribute to the importance of her personality that her advisers have spent much time on her image . |
| 9 | ‘ We have spent considerable time , effort and money protecting and defending the Fender name and its trademarks , ’ adds the current Fender president Bill Schultz , ‘ not only for our benefit , but also for the benefit and protection of our dealers and thousands of consumers who purchase Fender products . |
| 10 | But no , you have spent enough time writing to a poor ignorant serving girl . |
| 11 | Few divers have spent more time under waters as diverse as the Pacific Ocean and the Red Sea . |
| 12 | In fact , by the time they reach the age of 18 , most children have spent more time in front of the TV set than at school . |
| 13 | But about 200 have spent some time in detention , some for more than four months . |
| 14 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 15 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 16 | We have spent some time on the preliminaries , particularly the notation , because notation is essential for communication and because it is often neglected as a stage in attacking a problem . |
| 17 | Finally , the concern with manipulation means that postclassical criminology is correctionalist , as were its classical and positivist predecessors ; that is why I have spent some time , in Chapter 3 , countering anti-correctionalist arguments . |
| 18 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 19 | That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own . |