Example sentences of "have spent [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , they would n't have spent that money . |
| 2 | But she ca n't have spent all evening on the loo , can she ? ’ |
| 3 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 4 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 6 | They will probably not have spent any amount of time with a mentally handicapped person or really know how they behave . |
| 7 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
| 8 | I know Howard Wilkinson was disappointed at the delivery in the first leg and , if I know him , Leeds will have spent some time since working to make sure those balls count next time . |
| 9 | In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company . |
| 10 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 11 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |