Example sentences of "spent [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having spent money on a new washing machine or fridge-freezer , you may be tempted to pay a bit extra to cover the cost of potential repairs . |
| 2 | I presume that 's because the manufacturers , having spent money on giving you graphic EQs , low boost , top boost , limiters and so on , then cut corners with the cost and performance of the speaker , which is crazy . |
| 3 | If work fails to sell , he has lost income on commission and , in addition , he has spent money on promoting the event and the private view . |
| 4 | Secondly , the companies that have already spent money on cleaning up are reluctant to see others let off the hook . |
| 5 | ‘ You think because I 've spent money on you , lass — because your Dad 's spent money on you , you can do what you like now — eh Lily ? |
| 6 | ‘ You think because I 've spent money on you , lass — because your Dad 's spent money on you , you can do what you like now — eh Lily ? |
| 7 | Richard himself spent money on fortifying Poli and was always ready with subsidies to support friends and allies . |
| 8 | Some of the consultants were found to have spent money from the project on gifts and on unnecessarily high-priced hotel rooms . |
| 9 | But since the school term had started they had spent hour after hour in intense , ill-informed conversations about who was who in seventh-century Medina . |
| 10 | The nomes had spent ages during the summer hacking the hard ground into something resembling soil . |
| 11 | It is impressed with the amount of investment Intel proposes putting into Pentium saying that when the chip reaches the height of its production Intel will have spent $5bn on it compared to $100m on the 80386 and $1bn on the 80486 . |
| 12 | The club has spent £3,500 on the latest physiotherapy equipment ranging from ultra-sound technology to a Furudism machine , which electronically stimulates muscle tissue . |
| 13 | I hope you can help I have spent hours with Memax etc trying to understand this . |
| 14 | It was quite apparent that he enjoyed them far more than the excellent dinner which Winnie had spent hours in preparing . |
| 15 | He himself spent hours in the chapel reserved for cadets , praying to the image of Rogal Dorn , and to the Emperor , attempting to recapture the moment when he had flown through fire , sure that this would stand him in good stead in battle . |
| 16 | Having travelled five times to Rhodesia , having spent hours in laborious , painful , and indeed anguished disputation with Mr Smith and his colleagues , to discover that it was all futile because of arrogance on the part of the Foreign Office is something about which a saint would undoubtedly entertain a certain resentment . |
| 17 | Since she was fourteen months old she has spent hours in them . |
| 18 | Paul Bedworth , now studying artificial intelligence in Edinburgh , is said to have spent hours in his bedroom using a £200 terminal he received as a Christmas present to cause chaos , by breaching hi-tech systems in numerous countries . |
| 19 | The Siemens Nixdorf Osteuropa GmbH division of Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has now spent $10m on its Moscow office , its training centre and showroom , and the struggling computer company hopes to get a return on this investment by 1995 : at present , SNI is concentrating on the development of a dealer network and the creation of joint venture enterprises involved in transferring the technology of some of its lines . |
| 20 | Beehive Variety Ltd has already spent £175,000 on improvements at the hall but Darlington council is still unhappy about safety arrangements . |
| 21 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 22 | When Grant was asked in 1967 to date the former , he was able to prove conclusively that the paper used for the purported 1925 diary was not yet being made in Italy in 1937 , because he had spent part of that year studying the Italian paper industry in detail for his employers . |
| 23 | Ludens knew that Marcus had spent part of his childhood in London but could elicit no information about this interesting period , except that his parents had had a flat in Knightsbridge . |
| 24 | On closer examination it proved to be a medieval first-floor hall house , with solar , garderobe , seventeenth-century overflooring , and to have spent part of its time as a farmhouse . |
| 25 | During his years at Oxford , he had spent part of his vacations in France , but those relatively short periods had given him no idea of the chaos that had prevailed since his father 's death . |
| 26 | When she was eight or nine years old , Myra had spent part of the summer holiday with her grandmother , who lived in a old schoolhouse in a small country village . |
| 27 | Other people at the Town Hall only spent part of their time working for the Tramways Department . |
| 28 | To begin with , I 'd spent part of the night dreaming about Father — one of those long , tangled dreams with occasional moments of such lucid clarity that you can remember them in detail for years afterwards . |
| 29 | Editor , — In 1990 three cases of retinoblastoma were reported in children whose mothers had spent part of their childhood in Seascale and whose maternal grandfathers had worked at Sellafield nuclear plant . |
| 30 | William also decorated one page of a psalter possibly made in London , and may therefore have spent part of his career away from Oxford . |