Example sentences of "have spend [art] entire [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |
| 2 | You wo n't have to spend the entire holiday peering into that steamy little porthole , watching the children 's vests revolving in the suds . |
| 3 | As it was a special fundraising dance instead of the regularly fortnightly hop , a three-piece band had been brought in to replace the usual stack of gramophone records and there was ‘ real food ’ — fishpaste sandwiches , sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks — which the ‘ committee ’ had spent the entire afternoon preparing . |
| 4 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 5 | The creator of the evening 's culinary triumphs emerged unshaven from a cavernous kitchen where he had spent the entire day cooking over a wood fire . |
| 6 | They had spent the entire evening chatting like old friends , while she had preserved her silence on the sidelines . |
| 7 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |
| 8 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |