Example sentences of "i have spend a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody in the audience expects to hear a certian solo in each song , and so would I if I 'd spent a small fortune on a ticket . ’ |
| 2 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 3 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 4 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 5 | I was ready to fulfil the condition of my having the operation : I had to spend a year ‘ passing ’ as a male in stereotypical working-class jobs . |
| 6 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 7 | I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking . |
| 8 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 9 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
| 10 | And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people . |
| 11 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 12 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
| 13 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 14 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
| 15 | I 've spent a lot of time and effort getting this far . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time in Paris , ’ explains Caine , ‘ and the result is I 'm now a committed Francophile . |
| 17 | I 've spent a lot of time on this . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 19 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 20 | I 've spent a year … polishing brass , chipping rust , and slapping paint on bulkheads , and so far as being a deck officer goes , I 'm just where I started . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've spent a long , long time thinking about this . |
| 22 | I 've spent a fortune in this place and all I 'm asking for is a reduction in the service charge . ’ |
| 23 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time on the Heath lately , ’ Bill says . |
| 25 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 26 | See you 've got to get rid of all that because at the back of your mind you 're still saying , Well I 've spent a lot of money still only done part of the job . |
| 27 | I I 've spent a fiver on . |
| 28 | And it is true that , I mean , well , you know , I 've spent a lot of time reviving typefaces that are not around , I mean , you know , propping them up , creating a waxed edition , sort of Madam Tussauds version of Lucien or something , but it 's very interesting — there is not , in type development terms , there is n't a whole lot that has happened after the Second World War that really turns me on . |
| 29 | My position as warden means that I have to spend a fair amount of time in the office , dealing with correspondence and the large amount of information that our fieldwork generates . |
| 30 | In fact , I have to spend a lot of my time asking silly questions of people while standing in all sorts of silly places . |