Example sentences of "who [vb past] spend [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A London Christian , who had spent fifteen years in many branches of the occult before his conversion at the Luis Palau mission at Queens Park Rangers soccer stadium in 1985 , said : ‘ In my experience , there are not too many differences between the first group of witches and satanists . |
| 2 | Speaking after the withdrawal of the final charges Buckey , who had spent five years in prison before being released on bail in 1987 , said that he planned to move out of the state and " get some fresh air " . |
| 3 | Chen Wan-chen , founder of the pro-independence Organization for Taiwan Nation-Building , who had spent four months in hiding , was arrested on Feb. 8 and charged under a controversial law with " preparing to commit sedition " , an offence carrying a maximum life sentence . |
| 4 | Ryder RN , who had spent four days alone in the Atlantic after his Q-ship was sunk before she could bring her hidden guns into action . |
| 5 | A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school . |
| 6 | The Cabinet included three pastors , Ebeling , the SPD leader Markus Meckel as Foreign Minister , and Rainer Eppelmann of DA , the new Disarmament and Defence Minister , who had spent eight months in prison in the early 1960s for refusing to do military service , after which his church in East Berlin became a centre of dissident opposition . |
| 7 | Bassett brought alive a club who had spent 14 years since the mid-70s commuting between the Second and Third Divisions . |
| 8 | His ambition was stimulated by Nnamdi Azikwe , a Nigerian , who had spent many years ( 1925 — 34 ) in the United States doing graduate work at Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania . |
| 9 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 10 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 11 | A sudden break in the cloud allowed rescuers to spot Michael Benson , 42 , who had spent two nights in the 500 ft deep vent in Hawaii . |
| 12 | ‘ They probably killed a lot of people , and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands , ’ the investigating journalist was told by Robert Martens , who had spent two years compiling the lists in the US Embassy in Jakarta . |
| 13 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 14 | It was n't much , compared to Store food , but to nomes who had spent all day hungry and miserable it smelled good . |
| 15 | Herself the illegitimate daughter of a Danish sailor who had spent one month in Paradise Street before taking ship for ever , she had built herself a firmly structured life which could withstand all but atomic bombardment . |
| 16 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |
| 17 | Terence Evans , 50 , who had spent 31 years in the Foreign Office , was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court after admitting falsifying accounts to cover his activities . |
| 18 | Husseini , who had spent 21 months in detention between April 1987 and January 1989 [ see p. 36408 ] , was eventually released on Jan. 22 after a protest by the US State Department . |
| 19 | Also celebrating during the year was Mr. J.M. Swallow , who had spent 21 years as Head of Mathematics . |
| 20 | I have interviewed people who had spent 30 years in a big bureaucracy who said that the 6-month development task force was the only thing they were excited by and the only thing they would be remembered for — change was their mark on the organization . |
| 21 | Bloch , who had spent 30 years in the foreign service , gained international notoriety in 1989 when he became the subject of an intensive FBI investigation into allegations that he has passed classified information to the Soviet Union whilst serving as deputy chief of the US embassy in Vienna in 1983-87 . |
| 22 | There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble . |
| 23 | Such was the confusion that the BBC , who had spent three hours covering the race , only just managed to catch the men 's finish and went off air without knowing the second and third-placed finishers , despite a warning on Friday that such an eventuality was possible . |
| 24 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 25 | ALMOST 24 hours late , the first of several chartered trains left Prague for the West last night , carrying some of the 12,000 East German emigrants who had spent another night and a day on the chilly pavements around the West German embassy or in the embassy 's increasingly squalid grounds . |
| 26 | Volkov was transferred from Soyuz TM-13 to the Mir space station , and Anatoly Artsebarsky , who had spent 144 days in space [ see p. 38219 ] , returned to earth on Soyuz . |
| 27 | One Soviet cosmonaut was transferred from Soyuz TM-13 to the Mir space station ; another , who had spent 144 days in space [ see p. 38219 ] , returned to earth on Soyuz TM-13 . |
| 28 | An agronomist who had spent 25 years working with the UN Food and Agricultural Organization and with the World Bank , Dacosta on Dec. 25 presented a government of " national unity " . |
| 29 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 30 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |