Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] spent so [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I have spent so much time on the status consciousness explanation because it has been very influential , and because Nichols shows how it can be reinterpreted with more satisfactory results . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | It was typical of the man who had spent so much time in Four Marks working for the community . |
| 6 | ‘ The only reason we 've spent so much time making love is to stop me talking about business , ’ she complained with an unabashed grin . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They had spent so much time together , but hardly knew each other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was here , the very person he had spent so much time and energy and money tracking down . |
| 11 | He had spent so much time with Eloise that he felt he must make love to his wife that night , however tired he felt . |