Example sentences of "[vb past] spend a lot " in BNC.

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1 In the YPLL survey a sixth of adolescents reported spending a lot of spare time on their own .
2 He 'd spent a lot of time just wandering in the hills .
3 After that he 'd spent a lot of time with Jekub , poking around , finding out about it .
4 The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing .
5 Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at .
6 He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it .
7 Rory did n't really know Fergus Urvill very well ; although he did sometimes visit Lochgair , he spoke differently — posher — and seemed to spend a lot of his time shooting at birds and animals with other rich people .
8 I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns .
9 They got on very well , nothing homosexual I do n't think , but they did spend a lot of time together .
10 I bought exactly what I wanted and I did spend a lot of money , but I enjoyed doing it and had fun .
11 Yes , she had spent a lot of time with Jack Butler and , yes , she had found him interesting , attractive even .
12 Uncle Joe used to advise local farmers on sheep-breeding and had spent a lot of time on Tina 's family farm .
13 The suit was as unpretentious as it was expensive , carefully cut around a body that had spent a lot of time in a gymnasium .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Blanche had spent a lot of time , relatively , on her make-up .
17 Among the possible destinations there was Switzerland , where the Shah had spent a lot of time ( and a lot of money ) on his ski holidays .
18 Alyssia 's eyes roamed over his body , lean and muscled , and bronzed , as though he had spent a lot of time in the sunshine .
19 I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking .
20 It was only in the beginning , when we needed money badly , when we had to spend a lot on the house . ’
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