Example sentences of "spent a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have spent a lot of time out in the sun — running ? |
| 2 | People who have spent a lot of time with horses will have seen most of these emotions in horses at one time or another . |
| 3 | I 've spent a lot of time and effort getting this far . |
| 4 | We have spent a lot of time developing a methodology that could contribute to this process . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money on you , ' ’ they told the animal ‘ 'why are n't you performing ? ' ’ ''Ah , ’ replied the bull , ‘ 'I was only sent here in an advisory capacity . ' ’ |
| 6 | Yes , she had spent a lot of time with Jack Butler and , yes , she had found him interesting , attractive even . |
| 7 | Uncle Joe used to advise local farmers on sheep-breeding and had spent a lot of time on Tina 's family farm . |
| 8 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time in Paris , ’ explains Caine , ‘ and the result is I 'm now a committed Francophile . |
| 10 | I 've spent a lot of time on this . ’ |
| 11 | Perdita and Trace had detested each other on sight and , together with Randy , Trace spent a lot of time when they were n't screwing , winding Perdita up . |
| 12 | One friend said : ‘ They 've spent a lot of time together and there is no problem there . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ People this year have spent a lot of time paying off their debts and credit cards and digging into their savings . ’ |
| 14 | He 's spent a lot of money , but he 's spent it well . |
| 15 | ‘ We have spent a lot of time explaining it and we think people are approaching it in an open way . ’ |
| 16 | The suit was as unpretentious as it was expensive , carefully cut around a body that had spent a lot of time in a gymnasium . |
| 17 | And though she 's spent a lot of time onstage talking about how pretty she is , it 's only quite recently she started to believe it herself . |
| 18 | She had recently spent a lot of time finding out information about schools and playgroups , then her husband had completely overridden any opinion she had started to form . |
| 19 | But once they were on the market , the corp had spent a lot of R and D money coming up with a way to beat them . |
| 20 | He had obviously spent a lot of money on them and he felt cheated . |
| 21 | These good relationships are often the result of contingent factors such as living geographically close , sharing a particular common interest or ( in the case of cousins especially ) having spent a lot of time together in childhood ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , ch. 12 ) . |
| 22 | DEC , which held the Dutch introduction to its new Alpha machines here , and Hewlett-Packard , had both spent a lot of money on assembling and staffing the stands , and were less than happy with the trickle of visitors descending from the various sessions down onto the show floor . |
| 23 | The German government has never spent a lot of money on culture , and after reunification it cut the social , not the cultural , budget which is absurdly low anyhow . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money increasing and improving the toilets , ’ says Windsor 's Eram Osman , who added : ‘ It does n't matter so much for men — they can always go behind the bushes and we have plenty of those here . ’ |
| 25 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
| 26 | He 'd spent a lot of time just wandering in the hills . |
| 27 | Blanche had spent a lot of time , relatively , on her make-up . |
| 28 | Spent a lot of time inside . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | spent a lot of money on reflexology to see if it would help her sleep . |