Example sentences of "spent [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PATRICK RYAN , the Irish Catholic priest sought by Britain on terrorist charges , said yesterday he had spent the 14 years since dropping out of active priesthood raising money from foreign embassies for the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
| 3 | By the late 1780s he was in Vienna , having spent the intervening years in several south German towns and intermittently visiting Bremen . |
| 4 | Deciding to become involved in politics , he first sought out Lord Plowden , one of the grandest figures of the Great and Good , who had spent the thirty years since the war as one of Whitehall 's most distinguished gofers . |
| 5 | Horses were his love and he had spent the best years of his life working at the Galloway stables . |
| 6 | It appeared that Robertson and a few of his YC friends had spent the small hours of the morning in Regency Square banging on doors and shouting ‘ Britons awake ’ . |
| 7 | All you will have done so far is spent the two days here , eat sandwiches , followed by , said a couple of jokes and , come to that , . |
| 8 | But analysts recalled that Mr Parra had spent the two weeks before the talks touring member states in an attempt to secure a deal that would remove at least 1 million bpd from the oil market as demand falls with the onset of warmer One analyst said that the delay in reaching agreement had unsettled the market . |
| 9 | Fourteen-year-old RACHEL SEATON was so bored she 'd have rather spent the 30 minutes doing her homework . |
| 10 | Three of them had kin along this border , and had spent the patient weeks just past in picking the brains of their cousins regarding the habits of the household of Parfois . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps there was more than a grain of truth in the remark of one of his closest colleagues that Keynes ‘ had never spent the twenty minutes necessary to understand the theory of value ’ . |
| 13 | The red-faced major had a good memory for faces and well recalled that when he was lecturing to the officers of the Scots Guards at Pirbright in 1939 , a certain young gentleman had persistently slept through his talks , having spent the previous nights at wild parties in London . |
| 14 | I 've worked with better material than you , but it 's either that or — have you ever spent a million years in a coal measure ? ’ |
| 15 | He had been Sam 's best customer during his vacation , had spent a few pounds on skates and cycles , and had in fact hired these for days at a time . |
| 16 | Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 19 | Advertising is such a complicated business that you may be able to assimilate it better if you have spent a few years " knocking-around " — travelling perhaps , or working in a shop or doing different kinds of jobs . |
| 20 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 21 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 22 | I have always regretted the fact that the unhappiest part of my life was spent a few miles away from Riggindale , and I never visited it . |
| 23 | Having just spent a few nights in a major-accident ward , I 'd rather be late than hurry . ’ |
| 24 | In fact , I do n't know an actor who was n't actually brought up in LA and who has n't spent a few nights on the beach . |
| 25 | They had always spent a few weeks every year in Ireland , relaxing and visiting old friends . |