Example sentences of "have spend a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | White Waltham 's Joe Austin has spent a decade restoring this all-wood 1938 Chilton D.W.1 . |
| 2 | It is a view from the terraces written by a fan who has spent a lifetime supporting two of the world 's great lost causes , the Scotland national team and St Johnstone FC . |
| 3 | She is trying out exciting sports she has spent a lifetime wanting to try . |
| 4 | Charles was too sensitive for his liking , too intellectual , too philosophical , and although Charles adored his father and has spent a lifetime trying to please him and be as he would like , he has never really succeeded . |
| 5 | There is no evidence that he has actually coached his chosen club but one feels that he has spent a lifetime imbibing its history . |
| 6 | Like his father before him , he has spent a lifetime fighting against Chaos warbands , raiding Norse , and marauding Orcs , not to mention the occasional forays of bandits from Kislev . |
| 7 | And we have had a sitdown Chinese meal where Craig has laid claim to having spent a night sleeping ‘ on one of them tofu things ’ . |
| 8 | Her inspiration also comes from abroad : having spent a month travelling all over Morocco , Ingrid tries to incorporate the dramatic colour combinations and designs used by Arab weavers . |
| 9 | Theodore was a cheerful , plump man in his late forties , with a pale face and thick pebble glasses , those last a very probable consequence of having spent a lifetime poring over abstruse codes . |
| 10 | He 'd never have spent a week milksopping around this godforsaken backwater on account of — one little bag of bones . ’ |
| 11 | You do n't have to spend a fortune to give your family tasty , healthy meals . |
| 12 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
| 13 | I remember hearing Hardnut their solicitor — saying that Dersingham had spent a fortune trying to trace someone to leave the place to . ’ |
| 14 | The Archdeacon said Louis had spent a fortune trying to trace an heir . ’ |
| 15 | ( A headteacher friend was aghast to discover that his infant child had spent a fortnight rehearsing to be a road ! ) |
| 16 | The first ceasefire to be brokered by the UN rather than the EC was negotiated in Geneva and came into force on Nov. 23 , after Vance had spent a week monitoring the situation in Yugoslavia . |
| 17 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 18 | She had spent a lifetime obeying the rule of her childhood never to give way to her feelings in public , and like many . |
| 19 | The report on the coarse wares is very illuminating for the views at that time of a man who had spent a lifetime handling pottery . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 21 | When you 've spent a lifetime looking after OTHER people , it 's nice to be pampered for a change . |
| 22 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
| 23 | For experts who 've spent a career bringing pneumoconiosis under control , these revelations are deeply disturbing . |
| 24 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 25 | You have spent a while analysing your typical eating and exercise habits . |