Example sentences of "we have spend a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd spent a couple of days practising the relay . |
| 2 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money on you , ' ’ they told the animal ‘ 'why are n't you performing ? ' ’ ''Ah , ’ replied the bull , ‘ 'I was only sent here in an advisory capacity . ' ’ |
| 4 | Wembley 's Martin Corrie said : ‘ We 've spent a great deal of money substantially improving our toilets and we 're in the process of installing additional facilities for ladies . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money increasing and improving the toilets , ’ says Windsor 's Eram Osman , who added : ‘ It does n't matter so much for men — they can always go behind the bushes and we have plenty of those here . ’ |
| 6 | I think that means we 've spent a bit more than we planned . |
| 7 | It was only in the beginning , when we needed money badly , when we had to spend a lot on the house . ’ |
| 8 | We had to spend a night off the approaches to the West Solent and Poole as a result of information about local fishing boats coopering . |
| 9 | we had to spend a couple of years erm longer at school . |
| 10 | Afterwards we had spent a few stolen days at the ski resort of Grindelwald , in the shadow of the Eiger North Face . |
| 11 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 12 | We were on Egleton Reserve , the lagoon area of the Rutland Water Nature Reserve , and we had spent a blustery March morning wielding bill hooks to create 3-foot long sticks from coppiced pussy willow branches . |
| 13 | We have to spend a lot of time learning the limitations of the amplifier versus the guitar we 're using , and the microphones and console … ’ |
| 14 | We have spent a lot of time developing a methodology that could contribute to this process . |
| 15 | ‘ We have spent a lot of time explaining it and we think people are approaching it in an open way . ’ |
| 16 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 17 | We have spent a great deal of time recognising and analysing the political problems we face and comparatively less time looking at ways to get rid of them . |
| 18 | ‘ We have spent a lot of money on the Elland Road stadium and we have to make sure resources are there for developments on and off the field . |