Example sentences of "have spent the time " in BNC.
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1 | He lost his hair through chemotherapy treatment and has spent the time since recovering from the disease , which spread to his lungs . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
4 | He considered , now , that he should have spent the time he had wasted on all that fiction in working on his great book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge instead . |
5 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
6 | Though he 'd spoken with Klein daily there was no sign of a commission yet , so he had spent the time re-educating himself . |
7 | She had spent the time since her arrival making calm arrangements for the transfer of her father 's body to their Buckinghamshire home after the inquest tomorrow , and was now apparently set on clearing up this murder before she left . |
8 | How many of us have spent the time to get to know that person imprisoned in the vagrant ? |
9 | ‘ We have spent the time very quietly getting to know each other again , and in John 's case , picking up with friends and family . |