Example sentences of "had spent so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building site manager at the time told the Daily Mirror : ‘ I had a meeting with Mellor 's wife over cups of coffee at the start of each week to discuss any problems and let her know how much we had spent so far . |
| 2 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The time has come when she was ripe to take a lover — she had spent so long being , or playing , the devoted wife and mother . |
| 4 | These were the years of Stalin 's purges , and it was fortunate that he had spent so long away at a great distance . |
| 5 | They had spent so long reaching a place of safety , and were now so near . |
| 6 | Unlike the sycophantic official court chronicles — the Shah Jehan Nama that Dr Jaffery had spent so long transcribing — the accounts of the two European travellers were packed with reams of malicious bazaar gossip . |
| 7 | Lawrence had spent so long at Charlton Athletic that people regarded him as part of the fittings . |