Example sentences of "i have spend the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'd spent the intervening three years elsewhere , writing for a fun pop paper and then polishing turds in the press office of a hateful record company . |
| 2 | I 'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him . |
| 3 | But he went on to say he knew I 'd spent the night at your place . |
| 4 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 5 | After my husband died I had to spend the winter of 1973–4 alone in Lamb House . |
| 6 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 7 | If for any reason I had to spend the night in town and my friend Wilma could n't have me , I could stay there very cheaply with the girls . |
| 8 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 9 | I was so bruised and exhausted that I did not feel strong enough to walk home , and although I did not want to , I had to spend the night at Wuthering Heights . |
| 10 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 11 | As a consequence I really wish that I had spent the extra money and bought a slightly better machine . |
| 12 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
| 13 | It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee . |
| 14 | The following day he arrived to collect me from the hotel where I had spent the night . |
| 15 | I never have properly recalled how I had spent the larger part of my time in Préfleur when Jean-Claude was away . |
| 16 | It was new , expensive and identical to the one that occupied a full page in the current Vogue , so I had spent the day at a crime fiction convention feeling more confident about my appearance than usual . |
| 17 | I had spent the night , or part of it , on a patch of earth in alphabet-land — Avenue B , deep down on the East Side . |
| 18 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 19 | With only her voice as a clue , I had spent the afternoon ransacking the village for elegant snacks and found them : madeleines , ratafias , petits fours . |
| 20 | ‘ I often feel I 've spent the day nagging , ’ she says |
| 21 | ‘ I 've spent the last year asking the public to write something , anything , and then be photographed . |
| 22 | And as a kid , you live very Technicolour experiences , and it all influences how you live the rest of your life , and so since all that horror , I 've spent the major part of my life making a safe place for myself . |
| 23 | I 've spent the whole day with Piero , I 've read all about him , I 've stared at all the pictures in the book , I 've lived them . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've spent the last seven months among people who can speak only the most rudimentary English . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years learning how to forget it , ’ she retorted edgily . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've spent the whole day searching for you . ’ |
| 28 | I 've spent the last two years converting this place in my spare time ; it 's only recently been habitable enough to live in . ’ |
| 29 | Essentially that 's how I 've spent the rest of my life , to date . |
| 30 | ‘ Because I 've spent the last day or so watching you with other people , and frankly , Fran , it 's obvious to anyone that when you 're with me you act far differently . ’ |