Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] spent a long time " in BNC.

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1 And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake .
2 I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now .
3 Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them .
4 It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that .
5 In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch .
6 He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox .
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