Example sentences of "they [vb past] spend [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd spent part of the morning carrying boxes of some sort from one hut to another , apparently fairly heavy boxes , because it took both men to carry them . |
| 2 | Already stretched by their individual remits , they had to spend time , much of it unproductive , in preparing papers and attending meetings . |
| 3 | They had spent Hogmanay at home , welcoming the groups of people roaming the village as they came round . |
| 4 | But since the school term had started they had spent hour after hour in intense , ill-informed conversations about who was who in seventh-century Medina . |
| 5 | Many speakers rose to say that this was the first time they had actually met so-and-so , although they had spent hours communicating with them electronically . |
| 6 | The younger drivers were obviously under heavy pressure from their teams : they had spent years getting into the sport and they were being threatened with dismissal . |
| 7 | In the six months preceding the survey , 40 per cent of them had spent £18 or less on textbooks . |
| 8 | Many of them had spent weeks getting there on a dangerous journey from their homes in Sarajevo . |