Example sentences of "i have spend " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd spent too much of my life running away as it was . |
| 2 | Everybody in the audience expects to hear a certian solo in each song , and so would I if I 'd spent a small fortune on a ticket . ’ |
| 3 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 4 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him . |
| 10 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 11 | But he went on to say he knew I 'd spent the night at your place . |
| 12 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 15 | I 'd spent all my post-Oxford life in London hospitals . |
| 16 | Hell , I 'd spent most of my life dedicating myself to my work . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd spent most of my life building that career . |
| 18 | I 'd spent all day going there had n't I , half a day going there . |
| 19 | Generally the more expensive books would have gone already and only occasionally did I have to spend more than £5 , often far less . |
| 20 | But how else should I have spent my time ? |
| 21 | I hope you can help I have spent hours with Memax etc trying to understand this . |
| 22 | well how much will I have spent then ? |
| 23 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said Dolly , ‘ let me tell you that if I 'ave to spend two more rotten days just kickin' me heels , I 'll smash the place up . ’ |
| 24 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |
| 25 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 26 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 27 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 28 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 29 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 30 | After my husband died I had to spend the winter of 1973–4 alone in Lamb House . |