Example sentences of "she had spent the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose , for instance , she had spent the weekend in some South Coast resort and tried to hitch a lift back to London from your father ? ’ |
| 2 | Perversely , she was cross with him for having survived when she had spent the weekend fretting . |
| 3 | The court considered it was relevant to discover that she had spent the day drinking more than twelve pints of lager and cider along with two bottles of wine , and had sexual intercourse with a soldier during the afternoon . |
| 4 | She had spent the day nonstop before and after work preparing for the weekend . |
| 5 | Then Isabel saw Ellen 's stunned face and realised that her maid , at least , did not know she had spent the night alone . |
| 6 | She had spent the night in hospital and staff had found other food in the kitchen had been laced with the poison . |
| 7 | Stricken with umbrage , she had spent the months since her destoolment sniping at her successor , travelling the world in order to raise funds for some foundation , and , in general , rocking the bloody boat . |
| 8 | Apart from everything else she had spent the morning standing in a stone-cold pool hoping to gather leeches which would suck into her bare legs . |
| 9 | When she woke up two hours later she was aggrieved to discover that she had spent the evening alone and went to her room to listen to music . |
| 10 | She had spent the evening smouldering with resentment after his callous dismissal of her father 's death , but now the biblical phrases Luke had employed earlier were suddenly hammering at her brain and heightening her agitation , although she suspected that she was playing into his hands by allowing them to do so . |
| 11 | She had spent the time since her arrival making calm arrangements for the transfer of her father 's body to their Buckinghamshire home after the inquest tomorrow , and was now apparently set on clearing up this murder before she left . |