Example sentences of "have spent [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | " His business and his horses — and then it looks as though he has spent a lot of money on the stables . " |
| 2 | ‘ He has spent a lot of time showing you how his welfare works . |
| 3 | David Murray became chairman at Ibrox in 1988 and , asked about the Liverpool manager 's record in the transfer market , said : ‘ Sure Graeme has spent a lot of cash but he 's sold well as well . |
| 4 | Well this , who is must be related to David , anyway , erm they bought the house facing the o is it Old Cross , Old Gate bridge and has spent a lot of money on doing it up , li just over three million of course the whole of the downstairs was flooded today . |
| 5 | He 'd spent a lot of time just wandering in the hills . |
| 6 | After that he 'd spent a lot of time with Jekub , poking around , finding out about it . |
| 7 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 8 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |
| 9 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 10 | You would n't expect to see him again for months or weeks anyway — until he 'd spent the lot . |
| 11 | These good relationships are often the result of contingent factors such as living geographically close , sharing a particular common interest or ( in the case of cousins especially ) having spent a lot of time together in childhood ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , ch. 12 ) . |
| 12 | He must have spent a lot of time out in the sun — running ? |
| 13 | Clare was , well , desirable to say the bloody least , and they must have spent a lot of time together writing speeches , or whatever it is politicians do . |
| 14 | ‘ He would have spent a lot less time on the mountain if he had left a note in his car saying where he was going and when he was due to return . ’ |
| 15 | They appear to have spent a lot of their lives in England , although they have connections in Waterford . |
| 16 | Yes , she had spent a lot of time with Jack Butler and , yes , she had found him interesting , attractive even . |
| 17 | Uncle Joe used to advise local farmers on sheep-breeding and had spent a lot of time on Tina 's family farm . |
| 18 | The suit was as unpretentious as it was expensive , carefully cut around a body that had spent a lot of time in a gymnasium . |
| 19 | But once they were on the market , the corp had spent a lot of R and D money coming up with a way to beat them . |
| 20 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
| 21 | Blanche had spent a lot of time , relatively , on her make-up . |
| 22 | Among the possible destinations there was Switzerland , where the Shah had spent a lot of time ( and a lot of money ) on his ski holidays . |
| 23 | Alyssia 's eyes roamed over his body , lean and muscled , and bronzed , as though he had spent a lot of time in the sunshine . |
| 24 | I 've spent a lot of time and effort getting this far . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money on you , ' ’ they told the animal ‘ 'why are n't you performing ? ' ’ ''Ah , ’ replied the bull , ‘ 'I was only sent here in an advisory capacity . ' ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time in Paris , ’ explains Caine , ‘ and the result is I 'm now a committed Francophile . |
| 27 | I 've spent a lot of time on this . ’ |
| 28 | One friend said : ‘ They 've spent a lot of time together and there is no problem there . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money increasing and improving the toilets , ’ says Windsor 's Eram Osman , who added : ‘ It does n't matter so much for men — they can always go behind the bushes and we have plenty of those here . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time on the Heath lately , ’ Bill says . |