Example sentences of "spend a fortune [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 2 | He spent a fortune doing it up and then his girlfriend bolted and now he wants to sell . |
| 3 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 4 | I remember hearing Hardnut their solicitor — saying that Dersingham had spent a fortune trying to trace someone to leave the place to . ’ |
| 5 | The Archdeacon said Louis had spent a fortune trying to trace an heir . ’ |
| 6 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 7 | Neither is he afraid to spend a fortune to back his judgement . |
| 8 | You do n't have to spend a fortune to give your family tasty , healthy meals . |
| 9 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 10 | Left : You do n't need to spend a fortune to get fresh ! |
| 11 | The banks spend a fortune advertising themselves on television . |