Example sentences of "spent the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously this session would not have been possible if the pupils had not spent the preceding ten weeks on a common project where they were fully occupied in collaborative work . |
| 2 | Caro had spent the preceding day cleaning and tidying , but her mother had come determined to disapprove and did so easily . |
| 3 | PATRICK RYAN , the Irish Catholic priest sought by Britain on terrorist charges , said yesterday he had spent the 14 years since dropping out of active priesthood raising money from foreign embassies for the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | He had spent the latter part of the evening in the rather pleasant sitting room with her father , whose wish to please his handsomely connected and honourable guest had taken the form of a little boasting . |
| 5 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
| 6 | So I 'd spent the intervening three years elsewhere , writing for a fun pop paper and then polishing turds in the press office of a hateful record company . |
| 7 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
| 8 | By November of the year 655 or 656 — Bede gives 655 ( HE 111 , 24 ) but again this date may need to be emended in the same way as Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) — Penda was able to challenge Oswiu at the battle of the Winwaed with a mighty coalition , for he had spent the intervening thirteen years consolidating his position . |
| 9 | By the late 1780s he was in Vienna , having spent the intervening years in several south German towns and intermittently visiting Bremen . |
| 10 | Deciding to become involved in politics , he first sought out Lord Plowden , one of the grandest figures of the Great and Good , who had spent the thirty years since the war as one of Whitehall 's most distinguished gofers . |
| 11 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 12 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 13 | Anthropologists have spent the best part of a century debating the meaning and significance of these fascinating beliefs and rituals . |
| 14 | ‘ But we 've probably spent the best part of £1m on lawyers ’ fees , let alone our own time . ’ |
| 15 | Horses were his love and he had spent the best years of his life working at the Galloway stables . |
| 16 | spent the best part of the year working in here , sort of nine to five type thing and it 's mind walking down that bottom end without any ar without any natural light . |
| 17 | This is the world that I enjoy , and that I have spent the second half of my life so far in exploring and learning about . |
| 18 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 19 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 20 | They found that a large proportion of the children had already spent the greater part of their lives in care . |
| 21 | He too was small , and inclined to be timid , and Hazel and Fiver had spent the greater part of their last evening in the warren in persuading him to join them . |
| 22 | Polybius had spent the greater part of his time explaining to Greeks and Romans why the Romans were bound to win . |
| 23 | It appeared that Robertson and a few of his YC friends had spent the small hours of the morning in Regency Square banging on doors and shouting ‘ Britons awake ’ . |
| 24 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 25 | She had spent the entire day with him . |
| 26 | As it was a special fundraising dance instead of the regularly fortnightly hop , a three-piece band had been brought in to replace the usual stack of gramophone records and there was ‘ real food ’ — fishpaste sandwiches , sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks — which the ‘ committee ’ had spent the entire afternoon preparing . |
| 27 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |
| 28 | The creator of the evening 's culinary triumphs emerged unshaven from a cavernous kitchen where he had spent the entire day cooking over a wood fire . |
| 29 | ‘ Because , ’ Polly said crisply , ‘ you 've just spent the entire day yelling at me , and telling me how slow , clumsy , and generally useless I am . ’ |
| 30 | They had spent the entire evening chatting like old friends , while she had preserved her silence on the sidelines . |