Example sentences of "[pers pn] have spend a [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
| 3 | She is trying out exciting sports she has spent a lifetime wanting to try . |
| 4 | When you 've spent a lifetime looking after OTHER people , it 's nice to be pampered for a change . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had spent a lifetime obeying the rule of her childhood never to give way to her feelings in public , and like many . |
| 7 | You have spent a while analysing your typical eating and exercise habits . |
| 8 | There is no evidence that he has actually coached his chosen club but one feels that he has spent a lifetime imbibing its history . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 11 | The next thing he knew — by this time he would have the undivided attention of the entire bar — one of the Americans tore his fur hat off and screamed , ‘ OK , craphead , where is he ? ’ while one of the bobbies reached into the open back seat and pulled out an attaché case that he had to spend an hour telling them he had never seen before . |
| 12 | Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place . |