Example sentences of "had spent a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had spent a while in the toilet , most of the time with his ear to the stethoscope-like instrument he 'd pressed against the closed door . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Bathsheba had spent a day and a night as a willing prisoner in a small bedroom in her house . |
| 3 | I remember hearing Hardnut their solicitor — saying that Dersingham had spent a fortune trying to trace someone to leave the place to . ’ |
| 4 | The Archdeacon said Louis had spent a fortune trying to trace an heir . ’ |
| 5 | ( A headteacher friend was aghast to discover that his infant child had spent a fortnight rehearsing to be a road ! ) |
| 6 | Chopin had spent a winter there with his illicit mistress George Sand . |
| 7 | But he had also hinted at a sexual relationship with one of his American university professors , and with the editor of a certain American music magazine , with whom he had spent a vacation in Hairi . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had spent a total of twenty-two months in prison for a series of different offences , mainly theft and ‘ dipping ’ ( pickpocketing ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Infested with tourists and mosquitoes ’ — the verdict of some friends who had spent a weekend in ‘ the Venice of the North ’ earlier in the summer flashed through my mind . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Through the summer , as the skyscrapers grew on Tollemarche Avenue , they boasted of the glories of their country cottages and the important people from Edmonton or Calgary who had spent a weekend with them at these summer homes . |
| 13 | And so , after General Marshall had spent a night in meditation on the consequences , the failed haberdasher from Independence , Missouri , took on the seventy-year-old national warhorse with his belligerent scowl , his dark glasses and his frayed , oak-leaf-encrusted battle cap ( he was believed to have a man on his staff who did nothing but fray his caps ) . |
| 14 | George Joseph Smith , he told them , had spent a night in Dynmouth one time , at the Castlerea boarding-house , still in business . |
| 15 | He had spent a couple of minutes chatting to a slightly wary Tom Cotter , the Station Master , before starting the two mile walk home to Ham . |
| 16 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 17 | Later , he had spent a year at Cambridge after graduating from the University of Bologna . |
| 18 | Andy and Helen had spent a year in Britain . |
| 19 | When Fred Stokes arrived at the school , Arthur had spent a year in hell . |
| 20 | She had spent a year here once , working as an au pair for the family of one of the big industrialists . |
| 21 | But Gabriel had spent a year as a stonemason 's apprentice , clinging to the rafters and cornices of holy buildings , finishing off or preparing the stone . |
| 22 | It was the evening of a fortnightly pay Friday , and the working people , who had spent a percentage of their earnings in the public houses , were gathered en masse in front of the railway ticket office , to purchase tickets for the ‘ stand-up carriages ’ ( carriages in which there were not seats ) , to convey them to Glasgow ; they hooted , yelled , swore , crushed , and fought like fiends , and the depraved look engraved on many faces made one shudder . |
| 23 | Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair . |
| 24 | km against Iran 's 1,648,000 ) , its society and economy had spent a number of years digesting the effects of coup and revolution , together with a good deal of supplementary drama . |
| 25 | Yes , she had spent a lot of time with Jack Butler and , yes , she had found him interesting , attractive even . |
| 26 | Uncle Joe used to advise local farmers on sheep-breeding and had spent a lot of time on Tina 's family farm . |
| 27 | The suit was as unpretentious as it was expensive , carefully cut around a body that had spent a lot of time in a gymnasium . |
| 28 | But once they were on the market , the corp had spent a lot of R and D money coming up with a way to beat them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Blanche had spent a lot of time , relatively , on her make-up . |