Example sentences of "she [vb past] spend [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if he 'd known she 'd spent all night wondering about the feel of his lips on hers , about how it would be if he kissed her . |
| 2 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 3 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 4 | I could hardly credit it when Carole said we were on a cushy number ; she 'd spent whole days hacking down rhododendrons and that was really back-breaking work . |
| 5 | She 'd spent last Wednesday evening drinking at the Royal Legion Club in Swindon Town Centre . |
| 6 | However , the pensione was not particularly comfortable and she preferred to spend more time away from it than in it . |
| 7 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 8 | She had spent all afternoon trying to ask Nanny more , but Nanny had been in a funny mood , laughing one minute and crying the next , and not making any sense of anything she said . |
| 9 | Despite flying from New York the previous evening , she had spent all morning in meetings and was due to be photographed both by French Vogue and Elle that afternoon . |
| 10 | She had spent 71 years in exile , but Vienna 's Socialist mayor was in St Stephen 's cathedral for the requiem mass at which the old imperial anthem Gott erhalte unseren Kaiser ( ’ God save our Emperor ’ ) was sung and a benediction given in the seven languages of the Austro-Hungarian empire . |
| 11 | With whom she had spent six hours or so . |
| 12 | But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo . |
| 13 | She had spent many years of her adult life in Page Street and most of her old friends still lived there in the row of terraced houses . |
| 14 | She had spent two years solidly on the programme and felt now was a good time for a change . |
| 15 | She had spent one night with her fiancé before he was posted overseas , and she was unlucky . |
| 16 | From her vantage point in the museum and later in St Elmo 's Castle she had spent several minutes in wonder at the view . |
| 17 | She had spent sleepless nights composing the right words , words that would sound neither sleeveen nor grasping . |
| 18 | In all , she had spent ninety minutes at the meeting . |
| 19 | A massive hunt for Nicola , who vanished from home near Biddulph , Staffordshire , last Thursday leaving her bike in a ditch , ended on Sunday night when she rang 999 from a seafront call box in Blackpool , where she had spent three nights in a guest house . |
| 20 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 21 | She told the Herald that she would miss Le Court and probably be homesick for a little while but she wanted to spend more time with her husband and family . |