Example sentences of "i have spend a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
2 | I was ready to fulfil the condition of my having the operation : I had to spend a year ‘ passing ’ as a male in stereotypical working-class jobs . |
3 | I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking . |
4 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
5 | But we got talking when I had to spend an afternoon in his laboratory checking reports for courts with his staff , and he was ever so nice . |
6 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
7 | And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people . |
8 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | I 've spent a year … polishing brass , chipping rust , and slapping paint on bulkheads , and so far as being a deck officer goes , I 'm just where I started . ’ |
11 | I 've spent a fortune in this place and all I 'm asking for is a reduction in the service charge . ’ |
12 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
13 | I 've spent a lot of time and effort getting this far . |
14 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time in Paris , ’ explains Caine , ‘ and the result is I 'm now a committed Francophile . |
15 | I 've spent a lot of time on this . ’ |
16 | ‘ I 've spent a lot of time on the Heath lately , ’ Bill says . |
17 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
18 | See you 've got to get rid of all that because at the back of your mind you 're still saying , Well I 've spent a lot of money still only done part of the job . |
19 | And it is true that , I mean , well , you know , I 've spent a lot of time reviving typefaces that are not around , I mean , you know , propping them up , creating a waxed edition , sort of Madam Tussauds version of Lucien or something , but it 's very interesting — there is not , in type development terms , there is n't a whole lot that has happened after the Second World War that really turns me on . |
20 | I I 've spent a fiver on . |
21 | Switch across to the Boost channel on OD2 and the setting still holds good for that real processed , ‘ I 've spent an arm and a leg on my effects rack ’ sound . |
22 | In fact , I have to spend a lot of my time asking silly questions of people while standing in all sorts of silly places . |
23 | During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess . |
24 | Anna and I have spent a lot of time talking about food . |
25 | I have spent a deal of time these past few years on cultivating you , submitting you to a species of metaphysical topiary , clipping , pruning , stunting . |