Example sentences of "[verb] spend [art] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet even DEC , which has spent a small fortune debugging and porting it , has loosened its bear hug . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | John Hall has spent the last year receiving chemotherapy and blood transfusions in order to stay alive . |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model . |
| 5 | She has spent the last year following her sailing pursuits but this year she gave priority to her GCSE exams and has done much less sailing . |
| 6 | The man next door has spent the last year making a kennel for his dog . |
| 7 | The personal computers — bought for £15 000 , 15 months ago — are not even up to this job , said CND , and the organisation has spent the past year trying to exchange the system . |
| 8 | For the Ulster woman has spent the past year trying to adopt the pretty five-year-old she met in the dark and desolate corridors of a Romanian orphanage . |
| 9 | Clare Cunning ( 25 ) , pictured right , from Belfast , has spent the past year working as a Social Work volunteer with the Romanian Orphanage Trust in Brasov . |
| 10 | There 's no reason why a fellow who wants to spend a pleasant afternoon playing a decent game of rugby should have his life ruined . |
| 11 | Before focusing on the way in which educational accountability has manifested itself in evaluation procedures we want to spend a little time exploring this more general picture . |
| 12 | Opt for a self-drive car only if you want to spend the whole day struggling to get off Hong Kong Island . |
| 13 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 14 | She 'd spent the whole evening trying half-heartedly to fight the inevitable attraction she felt for him . |
| 15 | Tonight , with Marlin working until nine and a late dinner planned , she 'd decided to spend the early evening assigning and wrapping the presents she 'd accumulated on her various Fifth Avenue sorties , sweetening her labours with wine and music . |
| 16 | Not all of us like using woodworking machines , and do not mind spending the extra time achieving results which may be less perfect and mechanical-looking . |
| 17 | Having spent the whole day listening to the contenders , I did not want to look at the list — I felt certain that my name would not appear . |
| 18 | Having spent the whole summer denying any link between its policies and the riots , the Government had to tread warily in responding to the economic and social policy proposals of the Scarman Report when it was published in November 1981 . |
| 19 | Having spent the last decade appearing in television mini-series and narrating Thomas the Tank Engine , Starr has rediscovered his musical roots . |
| 20 | Joyce Cormie , Development Officer , Fife , Age Concern Scotland Having spent the last year doing a study on day care in Fife , I have been asked to do this presentation on the implications of day care for planners . |
| 21 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |
| 22 | Her husband would have spent the whole day cooking for the steady stream of customers in the small , steamy back kitchen below and she felt that he needed a break . |
| 23 | ‘ I must have spent the last week talking to hundreds of players . |
| 24 | You wo n't have to spend the entire holiday peering into that steamy little porthole , watching the children 's vests revolving in the suds . |
| 25 | Mathews will have to spend the coming months negotiating revenues with companies which may cease to exist in October . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway , after about six months I had saved several thousand dollars and decided to spend a few weeks drifting across the country to the West Coast . |
| 27 | The evening had turned fine in the past hour or so , although there were still dark clouds massed in the west , over where Ireland lay , but Karen had spent a useful day revising , and felt virtuous . |
| 28 | She had spent a sleepless night agonising over what had happened between herself and David and she found herself dreading what the atmosphere would be like between them . |
| 29 | He shuddered and replaced the glasses , before describing how he had spent a sleepless night worrying what he should do and in the morning had made up his mind to tackle MacQuillan again . |
| 30 | 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 . |