Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] spent a lifetime " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
| 2 | It is a view from the terraces written by a fan who has spent a lifetime supporting two of the world 's great lost causes , the Scotland national team and St Johnstone FC . |
| 3 | I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry , especially at the coalface . |
| 4 | She is trying out exciting sports she has spent a lifetime wanting to try . |
| 5 | When you 've spent a lifetime looking after OTHER people , it 's nice to be pampered for a change . |
| 6 | She had spent a lifetime obeying the rule of her childhood never to give way to her feelings in public , and like many . |
| 7 | For friends such as Hussa and Maha who had spent a lifetime with the family such formalities scarcely mattered any more . |
| 8 | The report on the coarse wares is very illuminating for the views at that time of a man who had spent a lifetime handling pottery . |
| 9 | She thought of Felicity Wells , the senior mistress , passionate about George Herbert and Anglo-Catholicism , who had spent a lifetime tempting with these fine things girls from this dirty town . |
| 10 | We have , in our company , many highly experienced people who have spent a lifetime in our industry . |
| 11 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 12 | There is no evidence that he has actually coached his chosen club but one feels that he has spent a lifetime imbibing its history . |
| 13 | Like his father before him , he has spent a lifetime fighting against Chaos warbands , raiding Norse , and marauding Orcs , not to mention the occasional forays of bandits from Kislev . |