Example sentences of "[noun prp] have spend [art] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember hearing Hardnut their solicitor — saying that Dersingham had spent a fortune trying to trace someone to leave the place to . ’ |
| 2 | Eve had spent the day wandering around Dublin with a heavy heart . |
| 3 | Jane had spent the afternoon sitting by the paddling pool , with her feet in the water to ease the pain . |
| 4 | On Sunday , Miranda and her friend Carol had spent the morning setting each other 's hair . |
| 5 | The Archdeacon said Louis had spent a fortune trying to trace an heir . ’ |
| 6 | Edith had spent the morning touring Broadstairs . |
| 7 | The first ceasefire to be brokered by the UN rather than the EC was negotiated in Geneva and came into force on Nov. 23 , after Vance had spent a week monitoring the situation in Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | Souness has spent the summer recuperating and renovating his house at Mere , Cheshire . |
| 9 | Debbie had spent the evening snorting cocaine and drinking , say police . |
| 10 | White Waltham 's Joe Austin has spent a decade restoring this all-wood 1938 Chilton D.W.1 . |
| 11 | EAST Belfast student Kirsten Thompson has spent the summer installing a water supply in a Namibian desert and collecting life-saving data on endangered rhino ! |
| 12 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 13 | Officers in Gloucester have spent the day logging the hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of property seized in raids late last night and early this morning . |