Example sentences of "who [verb] spent a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry , especially at the coalface . |
| 3 | For experts who 've spent a career bringing pneumoconiosis under control , these revelations are deeply disturbing . |
| 4 | It was the evening of a fortnightly pay Friday , and the working people , who had spent a percentage of their earnings in the public houses , were gathered en masse in front of the railway ticket office , to purchase tickets for the ‘ stand-up carriages ’ ( carriages in which there were not seats ) , to convey them to Glasgow ; they hooted , yelled , swore , crushed , and fought like fiends , and the depraved look engraved on many faces made one shudder . |
| 5 | ‘ Infested with tourists and mosquitoes ’ — the verdict of some friends who had spent a weekend in ‘ the Venice of the North ’ earlier in the summer flashed through my mind . |
| 6 | Through the summer , as the skyscrapers grew on Tollemarche Avenue , they boasted of the glories of their country cottages and the important people from Edmonton or Calgary who had spent a weekend with them at these summer homes . |
| 7 | For friends such as Hussa and Maha who had spent a lifetime with the family such formalities scarcely mattered any more . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She thought of Felicity Wells , the senior mistress , passionate about George Herbert and Anglo-Catholicism , who had spent a lifetime tempting with these fine things girls from this dirty town . |
| 10 | " D' you think this is supposed to be here ? " asked Harry , who had spent a moment or two scraping at it ineffectually with his board . |
| 11 | We have , in our company , many highly experienced people who have spent a lifetime in our industry . |
| 12 | People who have spent a lot of time with horses will have seen most of these emotions in horses at one time or another . |