Example sentences of "they had spend [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had disbursed more than was customary with him on the hotel where they had spent the night . |
| 6 | They had become suspicious after two men with Irish accents said they had spent the night in a pub that did not exist . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |