Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have spend a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry , especially at the coalface . |
| 2 | It was the evening of a fortnightly pay Friday , and the working people , who had spent a percentage of their earnings in the public houses , were gathered en masse in front of the railway ticket office , to purchase tickets for the ‘ stand-up carriages ’ ( carriages in which there were not seats ) , to convey them to Glasgow ; they hooted , yelled , swore , crushed , and fought like fiends , and the depraved look engraved on many faces made one shudder . |
| 3 | Through the summer , as the skyscrapers grew on Tollemarche Avenue , they boasted of the glories of their country cottages and the important people from Edmonton or Calgary who had spent a weekend with them at these summer homes . |
| 4 | ‘ Infested with tourists and mosquitoes ’ — the verdict of some friends who had spent a weekend in ‘ the Venice of the North ’ earlier in the summer flashed through my mind . |
| 5 | For friends such as Hussa and Maha who had spent a lifetime with the family such formalities scarcely mattered any more . |
| 6 | We have , in our company , many highly experienced people who have spent a lifetime in our industry . |
| 7 | People who have spent a lot of time with horses will have seen most of these emotions in horses at one time or another . |