Example sentences of "have spend a [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 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | We have had to spend a disproportionate amount of money on marketing and selling . ’ |
| 15 | Having spent a healthy proportion of his personal wealth in a bid to provide a Premier Division platform for the club , figures show the public are not responding through the Dens Park turnstiles . |
| 16 | Having spent a fabulous time with the Easterhouse Women 's Group at the Wellhouse Community Centre , I have been encouraged to continue working on the issues central to my creativity , women , race and class — a wonderfully exciting picture to paint for our futures . |
| 17 | Having spent a great deal of time on learning to hover in the ‘ safe base ’ position , you will reach a point where your carefully acquired reflexes begin to work against you . |
| 18 | The two officers outside , having spent a great deal of time and effort befriending the young boxer dogs Lila kept to ward off unwanted guests , scratched at the kitchen door in imitation of the dogs . |
| 19 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 20 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 21 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 22 | My first thought was that I was 320 duck-jumps behind and if I was ever going to make the state of shai-hai I would probably have to spend a whole weekend duck-jumping . |
| 23 | It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering . |
| 24 | Of course they were package tours though he seems to have spent a surprising amount on this one . |
| 25 | She was going to have to spend a second night at the motel , if only to continue their cover of an ‘ affair ’ . |
| 26 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |
| 27 | Having left the Army , Drew Benedict had spent a great deal of Sukey 's money buying really good ponies . |
| 28 | During dinner Sir Henry told us that he had spent a dull day and evening on his own . |
| 29 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 30 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |