Example sentences of "have spend [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 2 | I say again that in Northern Ireland the Housing Executive has spent a great deal more per capita than is the case elsewhere and that can be seen by anyone who visits public sector housing in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has spent a great deal of his speech talking about the Labour party 's spending plans . |
| 4 | ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images . |
| 5 | Yet even DEC , which has spent a small fortune debugging and porting it , has loosened its bear hug . |
| 6 | Mia , waking up to find her companion still sleeping , hardly gives the impression that she has spent a passionate night . |
| 7 | ‘ Sir Patrick has spent a large part of his life living in Africa and we are an African company , so to speak , ’ says Cluff . |
| 8 | Warwick International , the TAED products manufacturer , has spent a further 140m on its Mostyn site . |
| 9 | Traditionally , her top class has spent a residential week at Paignton Zoo and she is determined that , given the restriction on charging for activities within school hours , the tradition will be maintained ad infinitum . |
| 10 | It is a sad sight for not only is it a famous Belfast landmark but to anyone who has spent an enjoyable evening there taking in anything from a popular musical to a classic play it must feel like a personal loss . |
| 11 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
| 12 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 13 | The man next door has spent the last year making a kennel for his dog . |
| 14 | Coltart has spent the last year productively , though , playing on the Swedish Golf Tour . |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model . |
| 16 | John Hall has spent the last year receiving chemotherapy and blood transfusions in order to stay alive . |
| 17 | She has spent the last year following her sailing pursuits but this year she gave priority to her GCSE exams and has done much less sailing . |
| 18 | Kemp has spent the last year in charge at Conference club Slough who have appointed former Millwall and Bradford City boss John Docherty in his place . |
| 19 | Mr Alan Hogan , aged 28 , has spent the same number of years with Tioxide . |
| 20 | The personal computers — bought for £15 000 , 15 months ago — are not even up to this job , said CND , and the organisation has spent the past year trying to exchange the system . |
| 21 | Clare Cunning ( 25 ) , pictured right , from Belfast , has spent the past year working as a Social Work volunteer with the Romanian Orphanage Trust in Brasov . |
| 22 | For the Ulster woman has spent the past year trying to adopt the pretty five-year-old she met in the dark and desolate corridors of a Romanian orphanage . |
| 23 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 24 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 25 | Everybody in the audience expects to hear a certian solo in each song , and so would I if I 'd spent a small fortune on a ticket . ’ |
| 26 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 27 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 28 | She 'd spent the whole evening trying half-heartedly to fight the inevitable attraction she felt for him . |
| 29 | We have had to spend a disproportionate amount of money on marketing and selling . ’ |
| 30 | We have n't come across anyone yet who 's had to spend an horrendous amount on implementing Atlas . ’ |