Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have spend a " 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 | For experts who 've spent a career bringing pneumoconiosis under control , these revelations are deeply disturbing . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For friends such as Hussa and Maha who had spent a lifetime with the family such formalities scarcely mattered any more . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " D' you think this is supposed to be here ? " asked Harry , who had spent a moment or two scraping at it ineffectually with his board . |
| 14 | She thought of Felicity Wells , the senior mistress , passionate about George Herbert and Anglo-Catholicism , who had spent a lifetime tempting with these fine things girls from this dirty town . |
| 15 | They concerned my mother 's paternal grandfather who had spent a great many years in southern Africa — Natal and Cape Colony . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But for those who could receive a smattering of instruction at home , or who had spent a short while at day schools in their infancy , they may well have nourished a plant that might otherwise have ceased to grow , or even withered . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | People who have spent a lot of time with horses will have seen most of these emotions in horses at one time or another . |
| 20 | The match will provide Ipswich with a chance to give some of the players who have spent a considerable amount of time on the bench with some badly needed match practice . |
| 21 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 22 | We have , in our company , many highly experienced people who have spent a lifetime in our industry . |