Example sentences of "they [verb] spent a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |
| 2 | Managers say they 've spent a fortune on sound proofing |
| 3 | One friend said : ‘ They 've spent a lot of time together and there is no problem there . ’ |
| 4 | Adrian says they 've spent a lot of time in the water … tweaking this and tweaking that and making sure that it has come through production with flying colours … |
| 5 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 6 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |