Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have spend [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past Keith , who has spent periods drying out in a clinic , has said his problems were related to overwork , stress and too much drinking . |
| 2 | PC World is also about to introduce low-cost training at its Croydon superstore surely a great boon to anyone who has spent days getting to grips with a user manual the size of a telephone directory ! |
| 3 | Banker Alan Clarke , who has spent years working in America , says : ‘ The American women I have been out with have always been successful and good-looking but they do n't have the ability to laugh at themselves . |
| 4 | She is a natural historian who has spent years researching and collecting information about Baldersdale and the surrounding area , delivering lectures to local societies and writing for Teesdale publications . |
| 5 | ‘ I was obsessed with cleaning ’ The story of Diane White who has spent years fighting her compulsion . |
| 6 | Robertson , who has spent time labouring and more recently teaching in Europe to finance his playing career , is now attached to Castle Eden and Peterlee golf club which is allowing him to concentrate on playing local professional events . |
| 7 | Working with Edward Herman , a business school professor , he 's especially good on showing how the companies create acceptable experts when ordinary ones — simple academics who 've spent lifetimes studying some area — ca n't be trusted not to point out inconvenient facts . |
| 8 | Many see the Basquiat retrospective as a referendum on the Whitney Museum 's curatorial standards , but just a month before the show was to open at the Whitney , a New York weekly reported that the museum had sought to fire Richard Marshall , the show 's curator , who had spent years preparing the project with Gerard Basquiat and the Robert Miller Gallery . |
| 9 | When , in the manner of migratory buffalo , they moved elsewhere , its owner , an Indian businessman named Ram , who had spent £2m refurbishing the club , looked for a quick sale . |
| 10 | Our lecturer , who had spent months translating hieroglyphics there , said that entering the great , dim temple was for her , even now , like swimming into a warm patch of sea . |
| 11 | Many doctors and managers , who have spent months setting up new pricing systems and methods of accountability , believe the stress involved in another complete turnabout would be demoralising . |