Example sentences of "having spend [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having spent a night in accommodation which is the same as the recruits ' and having had the opportunity to talk to some of the recruits in the Sandes Coffee Shop last night , they have an excellent idea about their future career . |
| 2 | And he is no stranger to Rodney Parade , having spent a couple of seasons there from 1985 , moving from Newbridge , before flirting briefly with London Welsh . |
| 3 | Now , having spent a hard eight years making clear what we are against , the time has come to describe what we are for . |
| 4 | Having spent a fabulous time with the Easterhouse Women 's Group at the Wellhouse Community Centre , I have been encouraged to continue working on the issues central to my creativity , women , race and class — a wonderfully exciting picture to paint for our futures . |
| 5 | Having spent a couple of hours checking his rabbit snares around the low Severn grounds , the two fat rabbits now secure in his waist bag would indicate that this could be his lucky night It was now one thirty a.m . |
| 6 | Her inspiration also comes from abroad : having spent a month travelling all over Morocco , Ingrid tries to incorporate the dramatic colour combinations and designs used by Arab weavers . |
| 7 | And we have had a sitdown Chinese meal where Craig has laid claim to having spent a night sleeping ‘ on one of them tofu things ’ . |
| 8 | Having spent a great deal of time on learning to hover in the ‘ safe base ’ position , you will reach a point where your carefully acquired reflexes begin to work against you . |
| 9 | The two officers outside , having spent a great deal of time and effort befriending the young boxer dogs Lila kept to ward off unwanted guests , scratched at the kitchen door in imitation of the dogs . |
| 10 | Theodore was a cheerful , plump man in his late forties , with a pale face and thick pebble glasses , those last a very probable consequence of having spent a lifetime poring over abstruse codes . |
| 11 | These good relationships are often the result of contingent factors such as living geographically close , sharing a particular common interest or ( in the case of cousins especially ) having spent a lot of time together in childhood ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , ch. 12 ) . |
| 12 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 13 | , who joined us in May as national account manager , has also gained extensive experience in the food industry having spent a number of years working in technical and commercial roles with leading UK food and flavour manufacturers — being one of them . |
| 14 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 15 | He joined P&O in 1988 as Assistant to the Chairman of P&O Properties , Tim Harding , having spent a year as Finance Manager with Prudential Bache Capital Funding Ltd . |
| 16 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 17 | However , having spent a total of £41million on the redevelopment by then , the union would obviously seek to have as many sell-out rugby events as it could reasonably muster in a season . |
| 18 | Having spent a healthy proportion of his personal wealth in a bid to provide a Premier Division platform for the club , figures show the public are not responding through the Dens Park turnstiles . |
| 19 | At that time , , who had been a graduate of , and teacher in , my department at U.C.L. , had accepted a chair at U.C.L. , and was about to return to his old department once again , having spent a number of years at the University of Durham . |
| 20 | ‘ Having spent the Vigour of my Youth and Genius under the Oppression of Sir Joshua & his Gang of Cunning Hired Knaves Without Employment & as much as could possibly be Without Bread , the Reader must Expect to Read in all my Remarks on these Books Nothing but Indignation and Resentment . ’ |
| 21 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 22 | Having spent the last two years renovating our previously neglected garden , we have needed lots of plants . |
| 23 | Having spent the last decade appearing in television mini-series and narrating Thomas the Tank Engine , Starr has rediscovered his musical roots . |
| 24 | Jeffrey Archer , having spent the afternoon with John Major in the Tory leader 's Huntingdon constituency , will head for London with his wife Mary . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Having spent the whole summer denying any link between its policies and the riots , the Government had to tread warily in responding to the economic and social policy proposals of the Scarman Report when it was published in November 1981 . |
| 27 | Having spent the last few minutes in preparation for the strain of an interview with Davout , Thiercelin almost visibly relaxed . |
| 28 | Whatever the outcome , T&L has no wish to be perceived as depending heavily on one product , having spent the past decade , in Shaw 's words , ‘ building a broader base ’ . |
| 29 | He practises what he preaches , having spent the past two years actively involved in the East London Partnership , a programme which aims to regenerate the boroughs of Tower Hamlets , Hackney and Newham ( where Tate & Lyle has its headquarters ) . |
| 30 | Her mum , having spent the afternoon fearing the worst , met Sally from school and started questioning her right away . |