Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] spend [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a view from the terraces written by a fan who has spent a lifetime supporting two of the world 's great lost causes , the Scotland national team and St Johnstone FC . |
| 2 | I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry , especially at the coalface . |
| 3 | It is a sad sight for not only is it a famous Belfast landmark but to anyone who has spent an enjoyable evening there taking in anything from a popular musical to a classic play it must feel like a personal loss . |
| 4 | The Scottish Gallery has an exhibition of paintings by Roderick Carmichael , an Edinburgh-born artist who has spent the last 10 years in Australia . |
| 5 | Both the Mucker shrine and its indignant notice are the work of Kavanagh 's younger brother , Dr Peter Kavanagh , now 73 , one-time Professor of Poetry at Wisconsin University , who has spent the past 25 years in New York promoting and publishing Patrick 's work . |
| 6 | But the programme — accused by parents and staff of misrepresenting Summerhill — has done nothing to dent the enthusiasm of Shinichiro Hori , the 48-year-old professor of elementary education at Osaka University who has spent the past eight years planning and raising money to open Kinokuni . |
| 7 | First across the threshold was longest serving resident 78-year-old Nellie Everett who has spent the past 16 years at Kingsley Ward . |
| 8 | The NCCED and the other organisations listed on pages 145–7 offer support and counselling for a woman who has spent the whole of her life caring for parents or a relative who has died . |
| 9 | Spry , who has spent the duration of the interview waiting for his chicken and pineapple pizza to arrive , flicks through a copy of Vogue Collection . |
| 10 | He is also the latest discovery of British psychologist Dr Neil O'Connor , the world 's foremost expert on savants and the man who has spent the past ten years helping to unlock the genius trapped within their flawed minds . |
| 11 | I mean this is the kind of comment we will get from somebody who has spent the past five years on the village hall management committee . |
| 12 | Mr Stephenson said he sympathises with Det Supt Keith Readman , who has spent the last 18 months trying trace Mrs Heron 's killer . |
| 13 | There 's no reason why a fellow who wants to spend a pleasant afternoon playing a decent game of rugby should have his life ruined . |
| 14 | Who wants to spend the last 10 or 20 years of their existence incontinent , or unable to speak properly , or with severe memory problems , or unable to walk ? |
| 15 | Friends may start making excuses : after all who wants to spend the evening with someone who is becoming so surly and boring ? |
| 16 | After all , the government itself has felt it necessary to set up an agency simply to find fathers who want to spend no time at all with their families . |
| 17 | Increasingly it seemed to him that there were people who needed to spend a few hours locked in a room with the likes of Chiodini . |
| 18 | For experts who 've spent a career bringing pneumoconiosis under control , these revelations are deeply disturbing . |
| 19 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 20 | Greg smashes his guitar , shoulder-barges the others , lurches suggestively over his co-singer , Paula Kelley , as she squats on the floor screaming her lungs out , leads an inspired , funny and very , very noisy version of ‘ Fight For Your Right To Party ’ , and finally stage-dives into the crush of pissed students who 've spent the evening trying to steal his microphone . |
| 21 | Finally a look ahead to tomorrow 's programme when we 'll be following a detachment of airmen from RAF Lyneham who 've spent the last two months flying food to the starving in Somalia . |
| 22 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |
| 23 | ‘ Infested with tourists and mosquitoes ’ — the verdict of some friends who had spent a weekend in ‘ the Venice of the North ’ earlier in the summer flashed through my mind . |
| 24 | Pinza was owned by Sir Victor Sassoon ( who had spent a huge amount of money over many years trying to win the Derby ) and trained by Norman Bertie . |
| 25 | It was the evening of a fortnightly pay Friday , and the working people , who had spent a percentage of their earnings in the public houses , were gathered en masse in front of the railway ticket office , to purchase tickets for the ‘ stand-up carriages ’ ( carriages in which there were not seats ) , to convey them to Glasgow ; they hooted , yelled , swore , crushed , and fought like fiends , and the depraved look engraved on many faces made one shudder . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Through the summer , as the skyscrapers grew on Tollemarche Avenue , they boasted of the glories of their country cottages and the important people from Edmonton or Calgary who had spent a weekend with them at these summer homes . |
| 28 | For friends such as Hussa and Maha who had spent a lifetime with the family such formalities scarcely mattered any more . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | The report on the coarse wares is very illuminating for the views at that time of a man who had spent a lifetime handling pottery . |