Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so much time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The only reason we 've spent so much time making love is to stop me talking about business , ’ she complained with an unabashed grin . |