Example sentences of "have been spending a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 2 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 3 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 4 | And he had been spending a fortune , perhaps as much as £300,000 , on her . |
| 5 | It was after he had been spending a Sunday with her that the accident happened . |
| 6 | Altogether there were forty of us , all from Fontanellato apart from a shipowner from Genoa who had been spending a holiday in his house in the country . |
| 7 | They have been spending a lot of money on training , but what they 're doing now is localizing it , so training for Oxfordshire , which is different from training for somewhere like Liverpool , it 's got a lot more unemployed , it 's now not in the hands of the old training agency or manpower service commission , and we are looking at it completely afresh . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's been spending a lot of time round here . |
| 9 | Possibly at the church house , where , as you know , he 's been spending a lot of time recently . ’ |