Example sentences of "have spend the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After devoting much of the first ten years of his presidency to slow development of the institutions of democracy , Mr Mubarak has spent the past two in regression . |
| 2 | The Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society which directed more than 200,000 homebuyers to take out cover with MMI , has spent the day transferring policies to General Accident.They say premiums will be unchanged |
| 3 | A Tory M-P has spent the night sleeping rough on the streets . |
| 4 | Ian has spent the winter season rebuilding his machine to make it one of the fastest 600s on the grid . |
| 5 | He has spent the afternoon removing a uterus . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nineteen-year-old Alan Parratt and his friend Paul Wilkins , 23 , has spent the evening drinking at the Bull Inn at Bentley without incident . |
| 8 | He lost his hair through chemotherapy treatment and has spent the time since recovering from the disease , which spread to his lungs . |
| 9 | Souness has spent the summer recuperating and renovating his house at Mere , Cheshire . |
| 10 | EAST Belfast student Kirsten Thompson has spent the summer installing a water supply in a Namibian desert and collecting life-saving data on endangered rhino ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The troubled defence and electronics group has spent the week in talks a clutch of potential bidders . |
| 13 | She has to spend the household money and her good opinion of products means sales . |
| 14 | She 'd spent the whole of her adult life in a state of dread . |
| 15 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 16 | She 'd spent the rest of the afternoon trying to find out all she could about leukaemia , and the funny disease Dr Kent thought Bobbie Cole had . |
| 17 | I 'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him . |
| 18 | When he heard of the murder this morning , he was terrified of being questioned , imagining that Vera would somehow get to hear that he 'd spent the night at the Lodge — especially if he was detained . |
| 19 | But he went on to say he knew I 'd spent the night at your place . |
| 20 | If the girls in the village ever knew she 'd spent the night with an Adonis , they 'd tease her unmercifully ! |
| 21 | The court heard he 'd spent the day hunting and had been drinking to keep up his body warmth . |
| 22 | They 'd spent the winter working in India or the bazaar towns on the border and were returning now to their wives and children and their homes . |
| 23 | Its owner admitted to us that he 'd spent the Cullifords and other people 's insurance premiums paying off company debts , but insisted he was trying to get their money back . |
| 24 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 25 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 26 | You would n't expect to see him again for months or weeks anyway — until he 'd spent the lot . |
| 27 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 28 | Steve and I left the bivouac the following night , having spent the day preparing our abseil equipment , attaching short slings to our ice screws and pegs . |
| 29 | Hyaenas , having spent the day skulking aimlessly in the thickets or strolling in a leisurely way across open ground , now become transformed into determined hunters . |
| 30 | The pied flycatcher is a summer visitor to Europe , having spent the winter months in Africa . |