Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] spend [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shadwell had obviously spent many weekends on the Continent observing European theatre . |
| 2 | He had already spent much time on the hotel telephone to Scotland Yard . |
| 3 | Bush formally announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination on Feb. 12 — he had already spent several days informally campaigning in New Hampshire in January — to a cheering crowd of supporters in Washington DC . |
| 4 | Hatta was assisted by another Holland-returned politician , Sutan Sjahrir , who had also spent several years in the Netherlands and become an admirer of the Dutch Socialist movement . |
| 5 | In Angola and Mozambique , there are strange creatures called ‘ Marxist-Leninist States ’ when Marx and Lenin had both spent much time denouncing the State as intrinsically oppressive , but the media mean no more by this phrase than radical nationalists . |
| 6 | This meant actually producing and maintaining a series of questions directed at the CEGB 's expert witnesses , most of whom had clearly spent many hours going through every conceivable pitfall . |
| 7 | There was a loud echo in the grounds of Wyvis Hall , Mary 's scream ringing back from off the wood and walls and starry waters , and Rufus , a town dweller who had never spent much time in the countryside , expected alarmed or annoyed people to arrive or the disconnected phone to start shrilling with complaints . |