Example sentences of "have spent [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our reporter Tim Hurst has spent five days on board , as the Gloucester prepared for her new role , and also visited Albania , a country that once lived under the world 's toughest dictatorship . |
| 2 | I 'd spent all day going there had n't I , half a day going there . |
| 3 | I could hardly credit it when Carole said we were on a cushy number ; she 'd spent whole days hacking down rhododendrons and that was really back-breaking work . |
| 4 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 5 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 6 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
| 7 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 8 | Ford , whose new £35million movie is a box office smash in America had spent all day shooting the physically demanding scene in a huge water tank in Hollywood . |
| 9 | Young had spent all day here , moseying between the three-room Mayfair hotel suite , talking for 40 minutes at a time to every journalist lined up to see him . |
| 10 | It was n't much , compared to Store food , but to nomes who had spent all day hungry and miserable it smelled good . |
| 11 | Teams of officials from Britain , Hong Kong and China had spent five days haggling over the many points of disagreement left over from the visit of Douglas Hurd , the British foreign secretary , to China last month . |
| 12 | When Paisley man Christy Welsh was released by the Americans from the hands of the Nazis in Brunau , May 4th 1945 , the last thing on his mind was a return visit to the little Greek island of Leros , where he had spent five days desperate fighting before being taken prisoner . |
| 13 | The ship had spent eight days searching for a port in which to dock , and had been refused permission to dock by the Aden port authorities on June 19 . |
| 14 | Early on , after Waite 's capture , when he was still separated by a wall from the others , Anderson , who had at that point had spent 2,000 days in captivity , writes of Waite , ‘ I knew he was brave , risking his life for us . |
| 15 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
| 16 | There they had spent fourteen days in solitary confinement , chained in heavy leg irons and fed only on dry rice . |
| 17 | Although Linnaeus had spent four days at Chelsea in July , when the plants in the Garden were perfect , he had concentrated on dried plants — this to Miller was unforgiveable . |
| 18 | He said he had spent four days taking rock samples in the area of the dam and had found that there were interconnected limestone layers above and below the dam site through which the water might leak away . |
| 19 | Ryder RN , who had spent four days alone in the Atlantic after his Q-ship was sunk before she could bring her hidden guns into action . |
| 20 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 21 | Volkov was transferred from Soyuz TM-13 to the Mir space station , and Anatoly Artsebarsky , who had spent 144 days in space [ see p. 38219 ] , returned to earth on Soyuz . |
| 22 | One Soviet cosmonaut was transferred from Soyuz TM-13 to the Mir space station ; another , who had spent 144 days in space [ see p. 38219 ] , returned to earth on Soyuz TM-13 . |
| 23 | They had spent three days on the reef and had photographed every habitable key from every angle , one of the bank bureaucrats taking notes on a lawyer 's pad . |
| 24 | Newman had spent three days at the hotel in Walberswick — mainly to attend the inquest but also to soothe Evelyn as far as he could . |
| 25 | He had spent three days and nights without sleep — two of them , as he put it , ‘ in the bush with Samora Machel ’ . |
| 26 | Aware of the draining effects of the Scots ' travel itinerary — they had spent three days on the move from Suva — Morgan intends to have short , sharp sessions today and tomorrow . |
| 27 | Nathan had spent 122 days in prison in 1990 for meeting PLO officials , and had subsequently staged a 40-day hunger strike in protest against the law . |
| 28 | We had spent some days in the hills of Mayo before deciding to go to Croagh Patrick . |
| 29 | The refugees have spent six days on the Austrian border holding out for British permits . |
| 30 | They have been informed that they do not qualify for their bounty because they have spent insufficient days at summer camp , despite serving 51 days in the Gulf . |