Example sentences of "[pron] have spend [art] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him . |
| 2 | With only her voice as a clue , I had spent the afternoon ransacking the village for elegant snacks and found them : madeleines , ratafias , petits fours . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 4 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I often feel I 've spent the day nagging , ’ she says |
| 6 | I 've spent the night thinking about everything that happened , and I now realise that I made a mistake about you being involved with Harry Martin . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have spent the afternoon reading your past features , ’ he informed Maggie icily , watching her now irritated face and ignoring Mitch completely . |
| 8 | It is a view from the terraces written by a fan who has spent a lifetime supporting two of the world 's great lost causes , the Scotland national team and St Johnstone FC . |
| 9 | She is trying out exciting sports she has spent a lifetime wanting to try . |
| 10 | For experts who 've spent a career bringing pneumoconiosis under control , these revelations are deeply disturbing . |
| 11 | Greg smashes his guitar , shoulder-barges the others , lurches suggestively over his co-singer , Paula Kelley , as she squats on the floor screaming her lungs out , leads an inspired , funny and very , very noisy version of ‘ Fight For Your Right To Party ’ , and finally stage-dives into the crush of pissed students who 've spent the evening trying to steal his microphone . |
| 12 | When you 've spent a lifetime looking after OTHER people , it 's nice to be pampered for a change . |
| 13 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 14 | She had spent a lifetime obeying the rule of her childhood never to give way to her feelings in public , and like many . |
| 15 | Perversely , she was cross with him for having survived when she had spent the weekend fretting . |
| 16 | The court considered it was relevant to discover that she had spent the day drinking more than twelve pints of lager and cider along with two bottles of wine , and had sexual intercourse with a soldier during the afternoon . |
| 17 | Apart from everything else she had spent the morning standing in a stone-cold pool hoping to gather leeches which would suck into her bare legs . |
| 18 | She had spent the evening smouldering with resentment after his callous dismissal of her father 's death , but now the biblical phrases Luke had employed earlier were suddenly hammering at her brain and heightening her agitation , although she suspected that she was playing into his hands by allowing them to do so . |
| 19 | The report on the coarse wares is very illuminating for the views at that time of a man who had spent a lifetime handling pottery . |
| 20 | Bobby Robson , the England manager , who had spent the weekend pondering the merits of possible deputies for his club colleague Neil Webb , a long-term casualty , expressed ‘ surprise and delight ’ at the news that England midfield disruption may be kept to a minimum . |
| 21 | The reward , for those who had spent the evening feeling uneasily close to the edge was Faure , the sunny , satisfying C minor piano quartet , whose climbing lines seemed to settle again and again on to a ledge of happy serenity . |
| 22 | Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas . |
| 23 | You have spent a while analysing your typical eating and exercise habits . |
| 24 | So we had spent the day enjoying all that magic Minsmere has to offer — avocets and chicks , black-tailed god wits , marsh harriers soaring overhead , a heavy-flying purple heron , little terns … |
| 25 | They 'd spent the winter working in India or the bazaar towns on the border and were returning now to their wives and children and their homes . |
| 26 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 27 | The first of four complaints was that the trial judge exerted undue pressure by sending the jury out to consider their verdict at 5.28 p.m. after they had spent the day listening to the end of the prosecuting counsel 's closing address and the whole of the summing up , but their Lordships consider that this was a reasonable course to have taken . |
| 28 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 29 | There is no evidence that he has actually coached his chosen club but one feels that he has spent a lifetime imbibing its history . |
| 30 | Like his father before him , he has spent a lifetime fighting against Chaos warbands , raiding Norse , and marauding Orcs , not to mention the occasional forays of bandits from Kislev . |