Example sentences of "have spend [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Network South East has spent a quarter of million pounds converting what used to be staff accommodation , into a kindergarten . |
| 2 | He estimates he has spent a total of 20,000 hours in front of flickering images on a silver screen . |
| 3 | Since that time the club has spent a total of £1.7m on Barry Horne , Paul Rideout and Preki . |
| 4 | " His business and his horses — and then it looks as though he has spent a lot of money on the stables . " |
| 5 | ‘ He has spent a lot of time showing you how his welfare works . |
| 6 | David Murray became chairman at Ibrox in 1988 and , asked about the Liverpool manager 's record in the transfer market , said : ‘ Sure Graeme has spent a lot of cash but he 's sold well as well . |
| 7 | Well this , who is must be related to David , anyway , erm they bought the house facing the o is it Old Cross , Old Gate bridge and has spent a lot of money on doing it up , li just over three million of course the whole of the downstairs was flooded today . |
| 8 | The NCCED and the other organisations listed on pages 145–7 offer support and counselling for a woman who has spent the whole of her life caring for parents or a relative who has died . |
| 9 | Spry , who has spent the duration of the interview waiting for his chicken and pineapple pizza to arrive , flicks through a copy of Vogue Collection . |
| 10 | The difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher , and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 11 | Really it 's a problem of time and resources erm the difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 12 | We 'd spent a couple of days practising the relay . |
| 13 | another sort of six marks or maybe eight marks for the the end bit of the question , erm you 'd spent a bit of time on this . |
| 14 | He 'd spent a lot of time just wandering in the hills . |
| 15 | After that he 'd spent a lot of time with Jekub , poking around , finding out about it . |
| 16 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 19 | She 'd spent the whole of her adult life in a state of dread . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She 'd spent the rest of the afternoon trying to find out all she could about leukaemia , and the funny disease Dr Kent thought Bobbie Cole had . |
| 22 | Because I 've had to spend a couple of nights in a porchway ? ’ |
| 23 | However , having spent a total of £41million on the redevelopment by then , the union would obviously seek to have as many sell-out rugby events as it could reasonably muster in a season . |
| 24 | And he is no stranger to Rodney Parade , having spent a couple of seasons there from 1985 , moving from Newbridge , before flirting briefly with London Welsh . |
| 25 | Having spent a couple of hours checking his rabbit snares around the low Severn grounds , the two fat rabbits now secure in his waist bag would indicate that this could be his lucky night It was now one thirty a.m . |
| 26 | These good relationships are often the result of contingent factors such as living geographically close , sharing a particular common interest or ( in the case of cousins especially ) having spent a lot of time together in childhood ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , ch. 12 ) . |
| 27 | , who joined us in May as national account manager , has also gained extensive experience in the food industry having spent a number of years working in technical and commercial roles with leading UK food and flavour manufacturers — being one of them . |
| 28 | At that time , , who had been a graduate of , and teacher in , my department at U.C.L. , had accepted a chair at U.C.L. , and was about to return to his old department once again , having spent a number of years at the University of Durham . |
| 29 | But he was secure in his alibi , having spent the whole of the previous day in the Crown Court and the evening and night with friends at Norwich , only getting back to Chevisham in time for a late start that morning . |
| 30 | ‘ Having spent the Vigour of my Youth and Genius under the Oppression of Sir Joshua & his Gang of Cunning Hired Knaves Without Employment & as much as could possibly be Without Bread , the Reader must Expect to Read in all my Remarks on these Books Nothing but Indignation and Resentment . ’ |