Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] spent a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've spent a long , long time thinking about this . |
| 3 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 4 | Since then I have spent a solid twenty years in the service , with posts at the U. K. Delegation to N. A. T. O. , Bonn , Peking , and now Oslo … |
| 5 | I have spent a good deal of time trying to improve cost-efficiency without detracting too greatly from the service you enjoy , and I trust this is an acceptable compromise . |
| 6 | Granted that I have spent a considerable portion of my theoretical energies over the years criticizing reductionism , should I even be asking this question at all ? |
| 7 | ‘ I have spent a few quid myself , like breaking the British record for a defender when I spent £2.5 m on Keith Curle . ’ |
| 8 | It also means that you 've spent a productive few hours studying , which is a major contribution to your weekly workload . |
| 9 | But I 'm spun of stronger metal than that : when you 've spent a few thousand years wrestling with magicians determined to enslave you and entire religions devoted to your destruction , you develop ways of bouncing back . |
| 10 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 11 | The match will provide Ipswich with a chance to give some of the players who have spent a considerable amount of time on the bench with some badly needed match practice . |
| 12 | If you have spent a long day on the airfield , it will be difficult to refuse your turn to fly , even if you are tired . |
| 13 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 14 | If you have spent a twelve hour day coping with the daily realities of road accidents , the elderly incontinent , housing the homeless — usually with inadequate resources — I promise you that you rarely want to go home and read about it . |
| 15 | These will vary from Compact to Compact but you will be expected to show : a ) that your attendance and punctuality have been consistently good , b ) that you can work reliably at school , c ) that you have spent a specific amount of time on Work Experience , d ) that you have a positive sense of responsibility to your school and the wider community . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wembley 's Martin Corrie said : ‘ We 've spent a great deal of money substantially improving our toilets and we 're in the process of installing additional facilities for ladies . |
| 18 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 19 | Because we 've had we 've spent an awful lot of erm money and time in taking people into the system who say they will have a car when |
| 20 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 21 | We have spent a great deal of time recognising and analysing the political problems we face and comparatively less time looking at ways to get rid of them . |