Example sentences of "have [verb] [det] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy , who ca n't be identified , hit the headlines in June … after revelations that he 'd spent several weeks at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca at tax payers ' expense . |
| 2 | He still looked rather tired , having spent several weeks in hospital undergoing treatment for manic depression . |
| 3 | We 're preventing caravans entering because we want to er prevent and incursion by the gypsies back into the park again , having spent several weeks trying to get them out , and another week or two er clearing the place up after them . |
| 4 | Having spent some weeks in 1951 as medical officer to a basic training regiment in Aldershot , I recall with amusement many of the subterfuges and deceptions described by Albert Morris . |
| 5 | While I do not dismiss the care and treatment I have received during those admissions , I did not have to spend many weeks in the ‘ old bins ’ to become aware of their shortcomings as therapeutic environments . |
| 6 | In his answer , Gilmore also took up and dismissed as totally unfounded a claim which Paisley had made several weeks earlier in the Commons that his own life was in danger from government agents . |
| 7 | Liza had written some weeks ago to say that John had been sent , at only a few hours ' notice , on a course . |
| 8 | According to the report he had defected several weeks earlier and numbered among his contacts an official at the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , the Brussels ambassador of a Western country , a senior civil servant in the Belgian Defence Ministry , and a close associate of Tobback . |
| 9 | As the old pensioner listened to the song , which was now accompanied by the ringing of bells , Fleury saw an expression of tender devotion come over his lined face , and he , too , thought , as the Collector had thought some weeks earlier in the tiger house , what a lot of Indian life was unavailable to the Englishman who came equipped with his own religion and habits . |
| 10 | It is as if he had spent several weeks at the headquarters of MI6 learning the techniques of counter-interrogation . |
| 11 | Throughout his childhood , Matthew can recall feeling angry just once — when his father unwittingly trod on a model boat which Matthew had spent several weeks constructing . |
| 12 | Police officers had spent several weeks scanning videos of their previous encounters to identify trouble makers . |
| 13 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 14 | Drawing to a halt , he recollected an investigation which one of his colleagues had conducted some weeks before . |
| 15 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |