Example sentences of "they have spend [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |
| 2 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 3 | They 'd spent the winter working in India or the bazaar towns on the border and were returning now to their wives and children and their homes . |
| 4 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 5 | Managers say they 've spent a fortune on sound proofing |
| 6 | One friend said : ‘ They 've spent a lot of time together and there is no problem there . ’ |
| 7 | Adrian says they 've spent a lot of time in the water … tweaking this and tweaking that and making sure that it has come through production with flying colours … |
| 8 | Whenever you visit their place unexpectedly it looks as if they 've spent every waking moment cleaning and polishing . |
| 9 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 10 | Thames Water , who built the plant , say they had to spend the money to stay within European law , money which is ultimately paid by their customers . |
| 11 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 12 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 13 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 14 | He had disbursed more than was customary with him on the hotel where they had spent the night . |
| 15 | They had become suspicious after two men with Irish accents said they had spent the night in a pub that did not exist . |
| 16 | About half an hour before this was due to start you could meet up to twenty orangs swinging through the trees where they had spent the day in order to get their free meal . |
| 17 | The first of four complaints was that the trial judge exerted undue pressure by sending the jury out to consider their verdict at 5.28 p.m. after they had spent the day listening to the end of the prosecuting counsel 's closing address and the whole of the summing up , but their Lordships consider that this was a reasonable course to have taken . |
| 18 | Being Normans , they had spent the winter in relative cheerfulness , bedding women , hunting , and exploring those parts of the country unknown to them , in the absence of the winter wars they were accustomed to . |
| 19 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 20 | Many of the dog-whelks sampled on the shore there in October 1981 had their shells encrusted with the tubes of spirorbid worms , which suggests that they had spent the summer below the tidemarks to escape the heat . |
| 21 | ‘ We have come to the end of that chapter , they have spent the money , sold off the assets , squeezed the public services , cut the training , tossed everything they possibly can out of the boat , and it is still sinking . |
| 22 | They have spent the morning in classrooms working through a command post exercise ; they practise passing information and responding to the numerous and varied problems that would be posed in a real headquarters . |
| 23 | He had barred Anne from the house after he had found out that the pair of them had spent an hour in the local pub after shopping one evening . |
| 24 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |