Example sentences of "[pers pn] had spent [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 2 | We had spent some days in the hills of Mayo before deciding to go to Croagh Patrick . |
| 3 | There they had spent fourteen days in solitary confinement , chained in heavy leg irons and fed only on dry rice . |
| 4 | They had spent three days on the reef and had photographed every habitable key from every angle , one of the bank bureaucrats taking notes on a lawyer 's pad . |
| 5 | Aware of the draining effects of the Scots ' travel itinerary — they had spent three days on the move from Suva — Morgan intends to have short , sharp sessions today and tomorrow . |
| 6 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 7 | He said he had spent four days taking rock samples in the area of the dam and had found that there were interconnected limestone layers above and below the dam site through which the water might leak away . |
| 8 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
| 9 | When Paisley man Christy Welsh was released by the Americans from the hands of the Nazis in Brunau , May 4th 1945 , the last thing on his mind was a return visit to the little Greek island of Leros , where he had spent five days desperate fighting before being taken prisoner . |
| 10 | He had spent three days and nights without sleep — two of them , as he put it , ‘ in the bush with Samora Machel ’ . |