Example sentences of "i have spend [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 2 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 3 | I 've spent nearly a week playing around with the Korg A2 and I feel I have n't done more than scratch the surface . |
| 4 | I , I mean Dave , I 've spent quite a lot of my time slagging him off but to his face I 'm really nice . |
| 5 | I must confess that I have spent barely a fraction of my life paying any attention to the ragbag of funk/rap/rawk stomps that have swanned across the Atlantic over the past three years , but even RATM are sufficiently wired to blow several of my brain cells . |
| 6 | The Foreign Secretary said : ‘ My right honourable friend knows that I have spent quite a lot of time in the last four years as Home Secretary , with his full support , trying to plug loopholes , trying to keep our immigration control strict and fair . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , back in Austria , where I have spent quite a lot of time , the school kids are very confident and self-assured . |