Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've spent [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've spent the last year asking the public to write something , anything , and then be photographed . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've spent the last seven months among people who can speak only the most rudimentary English . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years learning how to forget it , ’ she retorted edgily . |
| 5 | I 've spent the last two years converting this place in my spare time ; it 's only recently been habitable enough to live in . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Because I 've spent the last day or so watching you with other people , and frankly , Fran , it 's obvious to anyone that when you 're with me you act far differently . ’ |
| 7 | I 've spent the last year of my life caring for the wrong person . ’ |
| 8 | I 've spent the last 40 years protesting about all sorts of things and now I 'm protesting for my railway , not theirs , ours . |
| 9 | So you 've spent the last few months diplomatically ‘ losing ’ at golf . |
| 10 | We 've spent the first month in our new house with an assortment of builders , damp-proofers , wood-wormers , plasterers , plumbers and painters . |
| 11 | Instead we 've spent the last 60 or so years trying to live up the likes of Jean Harlow , Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly . |
| 12 | And I would ask you to have regard to that erm when you look at the technical criteria which we 've spent the last couple of hours looking at . |
| 13 | They 've had plenty of reason to , to mar put up a marker in the three weeks and we 've spent the next three or four weeks after that discussing it . |