Example sentences of "[pers pn] have spend the [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 | ‘ I often feel I 've spent the day nagging , ’ she says |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have spent the afternoon reading your past features , ’ he informed Maggie icily , watching her now irritated face and ignoring Mitch completely . |
| 6 | Perversely , she was cross with him for having survived when she had spent the weekend fretting . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 15 | He has spent the afternoon removing a uterus . |
| 16 | It was late September now , and he had spent the day keeping an eye lifting at the weather , which promised foul . |
| 17 | Though he 'd spoken with Klein daily there was no sign of a commission yet , so he had spent the time re-educating himself . |
| 18 | He had spent the morning painting picturesque views and quaint scenes for his master , and had been allowed to knock off for a smoke . |
| 19 | He had spent the week driving back and forth between Blackburn and Southampton where his wife gave birth last Monday to their first child . |
| 20 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |