Example sentences of "[noun prp] have spend [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian has spent the winter season rebuilding his machine to make it one of the fastest 600s on the grid . |
| 2 | I remember hearing Hardnut their solicitor — saying that Dersingham had spent a fortune trying to trace someone to leave the place to . ’ |
| 3 | After devoting much of the first ten years of his presidency to slow development of the institutions of democracy , Mr Mubarak has spent the past two in regression . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Eve had spent the day wandering around Dublin with a heavy heart . |
| 6 | Jane had spent the afternoon sitting by the paddling pool , with her feet in the water to ease the pain . |
| 7 | How often she and Frank had spent the day down by the river , fishing for the cunning trout , or lazing in the damp grass , talking . |
| 8 | On Sunday , Miranda and her friend Carol had spent the morning setting each other 's hair . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Archdeacon said Louis had spent a fortune trying to trace an heir . ’ |
| 11 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 12 | After Elinor had spent a week in the nursing home , Annabel and Miranda were allowed to visit . |
| 13 | Andy and Helen had spent a year in Britain . |
| 14 | And so , after General Marshall had spent a night in meditation on the consequences , the failed haberdasher from Independence , Missouri , took on the seventy-year-old national warhorse with his belligerent scowl , his dark glasses and his frayed , oak-leaf-encrusted battle cap ( he was believed to have a man on his staff who did nothing but fray his caps ) . |
| 15 | Chopin had spent a winter there with his illicit mistress George Sand . |
| 16 | Philip had spent the whole of one night thinking of faking an absence note for Mrs Mills . |
| 17 | When Fred Stokes arrived at the school , Arthur had spent a year in hell . |
| 18 | Edith had spent the morning touring Broadstairs . |
| 19 | With that painstaking attention to detail which is always held to characterize genius , Dickinson had spent the Sunday morning before the Gold Cup briefing his stable jockeys , Robert Earnshaw ( Silver Buck ) , Graham Bradley ( Bregawn ) and the assistant trainer Dermot Browne ( Ashley House ) , and on the morning of the race walked round the course with these three , Jonjo O'Neill ( Wayward Lad ) and David Goulding ( Captain John ) to discuss riding strategy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Blanche had spent a lot of time , relatively , on her make-up . |
| 22 | Souness has spent the summer recuperating and renovating his house at Mere , Cheshire . |
| 23 | But Gabriel had spent a year as a stonemason 's apprentice , clinging to the rafters and cornices of holy buildings , finishing off or preparing the stone . |
| 24 | Jaq had spent the remainder of the voyage feeling exalted , yet pitiful . |
| 25 | Debbie had spent the evening snorting cocaine and drinking , say police . |
| 26 | Liz had spent the weekend with her parents as usual . |
| 27 | When Jack had spent the night in friends ' houses after a match he realised that their mothers were not like this . |
| 28 | White Waltham 's Joe Austin has spent a decade restoring this all-wood 1938 Chilton D.W.1 . |
| 29 | It was n't the first time Berowne had spent the night in St Matthew 's church vestry . ’ |
| 30 | 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 ! |