Example sentences of "[pers pn] have spend a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 4 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 5 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 6 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 7 | My position as warden means that I have to spend a fair amount of time in the office , dealing with correspondence and the large amount of information that our fieldwork generates . |
| 8 | I have spent a good deal of time trying to improve cost-efficiency without detracting too greatly from the service you enjoy , and I trust this is an acceptable compromise . |
| 9 | Granted that I have spent a considerable portion of my theoretical energies over the years criticizing reductionism , should I even be asking this question at all ? |
| 10 | Mia , waking up to find her companion still sleeping , hardly gives the impression that she has spent a passionate night . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had spent a fear-filled night beneath a stone slab in the meat cellar and , what was more , completely alone . |
| 14 | If you have spent a long day on the airfield , it will be difficult to refuse your turn to fly , even if you are tired . |
| 15 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 16 | These will vary from Compact to Compact but you will be expected to show : a ) that your attendance and punctuality have been consistently good , b ) that you can work reliably at school , c ) that you have spent a specific amount of time on Work Experience , d ) that you have a positive sense of responsibility to your school and the wider community . |
| 17 | Wembley 's Martin Corrie said : ‘ We 've spent a great deal of money substantially improving our toilets and we 're in the process of installing additional facilities for ladies . |
| 18 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 19 | We have spent a great deal of time recognising and analysing the political problems we face and comparatively less time looking at ways to get rid of them . |
| 20 | They had spent a pleasant evening , and James had been most solicitous when he took his leave . |
| 21 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 22 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 23 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 24 | During dinner Sir Henry told us that he had spent a dull day and evening on his own . |
| 25 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had spent a short period there as a singer , then formed a reputation at Bordeaux and elsewhere as a gifted opéra director and arranger . |
| 28 | Moreover , there is an absence of facilities for obtaining cards for the meters , so that many people who have to use them have to spend a considerable amount of money on travelling to get hold of cards . |