Example sentences of "[vb mod] have spend [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He considered , now , that he should have spent the time he had wasted on all that fiction in working on his great book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge instead . |
| 2 | er one thing or another , I must have spent a couple of thousand pounds on these photos . |
| 3 | He must have spent a lot of time out in the sun — running ? |
| 4 | Clare was , well , desirable to say the bloody least , and they must have spent a lot of time together writing speeches , or whatever it is politicians do . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that Lowe used sign language — during sometime in his career , he must have spent a period or periods in Edinburgh because the Member 's List of Edinburgh 's Congregational Deaf Church lists a John William Lowe of London as Member no. 125 , married to a hearing wife , for the period 1836 to 1838 . |
| 6 | They must have spent an hour sifting through letters , indentures and memoranda . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll have to spend the night at our own places . |
| 8 | I do n't envy you having to tell the dear lady that she 'll have to spend the rest of her holiday with her wrist in plaster ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That means we 'll have to spend the rest of our time flat on our bellies . ’ |
| 10 | At this point , Alf Jacobson entered the room to inform us that when he rang the Canadian Pacific Railway to check on the 9.15pm train by which Mr Murray and party were to travel to Regina , he was informed that the train was held up at Swift Current because of the blizzard , and that it would seem the CBC party might have to spend the night in Moose Jaw . |
| 11 | ‘ We thought we might have to spend the night down there and that 's when we started getting a bit worried , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ My parents might have spent every penny they earned on helping their out-of-work friends , but Gran brought me up to be thrifty and never to get into debt . ’ |
| 13 | It looked the sort of room Queen Anne might have spent a night in . |
| 14 | Much better to be untruthful and leave Laura thinking that but for a migraine , they might have spent the night together . |
| 15 | John Bowes could have spent the whole of his fortune on good living and racing but he chose to apply a large proportion to this fabulous collection and its breathtaking setting , which now forms part of our local heritage . |
| 16 | I mean when , when , when she was home she could have spent the evening with us when all the children were there and joined in but she would n't , she cleared out back and that 's how Julie heard |
| 17 | ‘ You could have pitched it a bit more strongly , sir , ’ Talbot said , ‘ but I 'd have to spend the rest of the night thinking how . |
| 18 | If there was trouble he 'd have to spend the rest of the day putting it down and would n't be able to get on with the arms search at all . |
| 19 | I was beginning to think I 'd have to spend the night here . ’ |
| 20 | I may have to spend a lot of my time in Scotland now — perhaps even look for a Scottish constituency — and your work is in London . ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
| 22 | She or he would have to spend a year in general practice to have the opportunity to acquire similar skills . |
| 23 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 24 | On the other hand that would mean she would have to spend the rest of the night in her room with the door locked while he mounted guard outside , forgoing both the pleasure of quelling her hunger pangs and , much more important , a very real opportunity of fulfilling her original quest . |
| 25 | ‘ He would have spent a lot less time on the mountain if he had left a note in his car saying where he was going and when he was due to return . ’ |
| 26 | Trent had told him to keep it ; whether they had been on board or not , he would have spent the afternoon on the reef — having them along was a pleasure . |
| 27 | If Yggdrasil stuck a terminal in , I would have spent the rest of my life floating in a tank living out a Late , Late Show rerun . |
| 28 | ‘ Meaning , ’ he said slowly , ‘ that you would have spent the night in my bed . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You would have spent the night in my arms , Caroline , ’ he caught her hands in one of his as she began to raise them , ‘ crying out my name as I touched you , begging me to take you over and over again , until finally the sun chased away the darkness . ’ |
| 30 | Most sufferers will have to spend a day or two in bed , and the feeling of malaise and depression with which the footballers are left will not necessarily be due to their team 's position in the league , but is an almost inevitable element of a severe bout of flu . |