Example sentences of "he [vb past] spend [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real pioneer of the Italian monodic style in Germany was one of his pupils , Johann Nauwach ( c. 1595–c. 1630 ) , who like him had spent some years in Italy . |
| 2 | and he 'd spent fifty quid in Sainsburys . |
| 3 | He 'd spent 18 months in prison awaiting trial and served 6 months of a 10 year sentence . |
| 4 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 5 | The boy , who ca n't be identified , hit the headlines in June … after revelations that he 'd spent several weeks at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca at tax payers ' expense . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister and senior Cabinet colleagues gathered at the House of Commons Church … it was a fitting place for Nicholas Ridley 's memorial service , he 'd spent 33 years of his life at the centre of British politics . |
| 7 | Distracted also by his own uncertain future , he began to spend less time on Lake Street and more on getting back into journalism . |
| 8 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
| 9 | He needed to spend more time in Burford , discussing the terms of his future tenancy with James Price . |
| 10 | ‘ He proceeded to spend four minutes telling me why I could n't have the job , and then said , ‘ I 'm sorry , my time is more or less up now ’ . |
| 11 | Lord Home belied his reputation for laziness — the commonly-held view of the elder statesman , as the British prototype for Ronald Reagan , did n't hold water : up and working at 6.30 every morning , even if he did spend uncommon amounts of time in trout streams . |
| 12 | He had to spend fifteen hours a week on a dialysis machine . |
| 13 | ‘ Nobody else could see that the man was on a financial treadmill , that his expenses were so huge he had to spend 50 weeks a year on the road to afford two weeks in his castle in Normandy . ’ |
| 14 | He 's always been a gentle little soul , very loving and friendly with everyone , but as he had to spend 3–4 hours every day on his own at home , we thought we would get another dog as company for him . |
| 15 | Several of the dormitories were flooded because of the water , including Endill 's , and he had to spend some nights sleeping in Mr Rumback 's room . |
| 16 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 17 | He said he had spent four days taking rock samples in the area of the dam and had found that there were interconnected limestone layers above and below the dam site through which the water might leak away . |
| 18 | For example , my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary mentioned a Ugandan who came here from Italy , where he had spent four years . |
| 19 | He had spent much time on the pier with William and Joe and had returned to find his pupils assembled , eager to learn for once . |
| 20 | After his mother died in 1987 , he had spent eight months in hospital , diagnosed as having Koirsakoff 's Psychosis — short-term memory loss resulting from long-term alcohol abuse . |
| 21 | Previously with the prominent British executive search firm of Whitehead Mann , he had spent eight years in industry , and had worked in general consulting with HAY-MSL after a distinguished academic record at Cambridge . |
| 22 | John 's father left the family when John was seven , although he had spent long periods away when John was younger . |
| 23 | At the age of 30 , he had spent nine years working in the family haulage business . |
| 24 | He had spent fourteen years with the French Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre Espionage before becoming one of Philpott 's first field operatives when UNACO was founded in I980 . |
| 25 | He appointed Steel-Maitland , another ten-minute decision , after Horne had refused , despite the fact that he told Tom Jones he had spent eighteen months contemplating the importance of the post : ‘ Neville recommended S-M . |
| 26 | He had spent two hours in his room , at his console . |
| 27 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
| 28 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 29 | Until his retirement three years ago , he had spent 38 years working in the photographic studio at the Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 30 | Some , like Bina Gardens , where he had spent pleasant evenings with Frank Morley and Geoffrey Faber in the 1930s at John Hayward 's flat , resulted in the Noctes Binanianae , a little private anthology which I came upon later in the Houghton Library at Harvard . |