Example sentences of "[vb past] spent so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister 's speech was pitiful , not just because policies had collapsed but because he 'd spent so little time preparing it , so busy was he trying to help his chum . |
| 2 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 3 | I would go to Rome ; Rome , where I had spent so many happy days in the past , would be my final resting place . |
| 4 | It was no coincidence , perhaps , that its president was the Marquess of Salisbury , married to Mollie Salisbury who had spent so much time helping with the garden at Highgrove . |
| 5 | She had spent so many hours last night thinking about a pathetic , grief-stricken Harriet Shakespeare that this small , tough woman had taken her by surprise , almost annoyed her . |
| 6 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 7 | She was here , the very person he had spent so much time and energy and money tracking down . |
| 8 | ‘ The time has come when she was ripe to take a lover — she had spent so long being , or playing , the devoted wife and mother . |
| 9 | It was typical of the man who had spent so much time in Four Marks working for the community . |
| 10 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 11 | The building site manager at the time told the Daily Mirror : ‘ I had a meeting with Mellor 's wife over cups of coffee at the start of each week to discuss any problems and let her know how much we had spent so far . |
| 12 | Because she had spent so much of her teenage by herself , she had found plenty of time to read the newspapers and the books Patsy would bring home from school , or take out for her from the school library . |
| 13 | He had been anxious to finish " Little Gidding " partly in order to get on with other jobs , particularly since he had spent so much of the early part of 1941 in seclusion in Shamley Green because of ill health , and these pre-empted his time and concentration . |
| 14 | These were the years of Stalin 's purges , and it was fortunate that he had spent so long away at a great distance . |
| 15 | She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past . |
| 16 | He had spent so much time with Eloise that he felt he must make love to his wife that night , however tired he felt . |
| 17 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 18 | They had spent so long reaching a place of safety , and were now so near . |
| 19 | ( None of his books indicated that he had spent so much of his life in America . ) |
| 20 | They were accustomed to drop in on him between ten and eleven in the evening , when he could be an agreeable companion ; and he , who had spent so little of his life with women , surprised his colleagues by making friends with the celebrated actress Dorothy Tutin . |
| 21 | Unlike the sycophantic official court chronicles — the Shah Jehan Nama that Dr Jaffery had spent so long transcribing — the accounts of the two European travellers were packed with reams of malicious bazaar gossip . |
| 22 | Claudia lay sleepless , visions of Dana jiving at the head of the bridal procession , dressed in shorts and a veil instead of the lovely dress Claudia had spent so much time designing , going through her head . |
| 23 | They had spent so much time together , but hardly knew each other . |
| 24 | Lawrence had spent so long at Charlton Athletic that people regarded him as part of the fittings . |
| 25 | I understood Rochester said to Jane that he was n't sure er , his French had spent so many |