Example sentences of "[noun sg] have spend [art] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an unwonted gaiety in her manner as if the superintendent had spent the morning swallowing double Scotches . |
| 2 | He had already learned his lesson by painful experience ; the burn-like swelling on his left calf still throbbed occasionally to remind him of the morning a week ago when he had drawn on his trousers carelessly , to discover that a scorpion had spent the night nestling in one of the legs . |
| 3 | The decorations committee had spent the morning spreading tables with brown , yellow and green linen cloths and pinning gold-sprayed autumn leaves to each corner of them . |
| 4 | ( A headteacher friend was aghast to discover that his infant child had spent a fortnight rehearsing to be a road ! ) |
| 5 | A Tory M-P has spent the night sleeping rough on the streets . |
| 6 | The mounted police section have spent the day searching the expansive grounds of a national Trust Estate at nearby Christmas Common . |