Example sentences of "[verb] spent some time [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning |
| 2 | Having spent some time delving into the subject , I can report that pen computers are still mostly useless because of the lack of proper pen software . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 6 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 7 | And you 've spent some time doing this , do n't you , Adam ? |
| 8 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 9 | That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own . |
| 10 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |