Example sentences of "[pers pn] have spend [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 2 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 3 | Hell , I 'd spent most of my life dedicating myself to my work . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd spent most of my life building that career . |
| 5 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 6 | This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve , whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study . |
| 7 | It was wonderful , the shops were excellent , it was only the first day of our holiday and I had spent most of my money . |
| 8 | For fifteen years I 've spent much of my spare time scrabbling and grovelling about in the mud and gravels of our upland waterways . |
| 9 | A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've spent most of my life near horses , one way and another . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've spent most of the day with them . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's funny , I 've spent most of my life thinking of advertising as a sort of dirty business , but in fact the same mechanisms work : you get input from someone , you get inspired and you give back . |
| 13 | I 've spent most of today thinking . |
| 14 | Fucking alright , I have n't been up to the today , I 've spent most of it sat fucking here . |
| 15 | On the expenditure side of the account , as the Chief Executive has already indicated , I have spent much of this year chairing a working party reviewing the constitution and committee structure of the Council . |
| 16 | I have spent most of the day just finding my way here from the castle . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps because the company in which I have spent most of my industrial life is scientifically based , we have a passion for perfection . |
| 18 | I have spent most of my career in two specific areas and therefore I am sure I can be forgiven for saying a special thank you and farewell to Inroads and an extra special thank you and goodbye to Roadcare . |
| 19 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 20 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 21 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
| 22 | Her father had been an army officer of fairly high rank , and she 'd spent most of her early life in a military environment . |
| 23 | Well , she 'd spent most of her life flying solo , protecting herself from the rest of the world behind high barriers ; now , after risking and losing all in one fell swoop , she 'd simply have to set about the painful business of re-erecting those walls . |
| 24 | Now , a couple of soothing hours later — she 'd spent most of that time at the Killearn workshop — she knew exactly why she 'd reacted as she had . |
| 25 | Good heavens , she thought , since she 'd spent most of her life studying , she seldom went out on a Saturday night anyhow ! |
| 26 | Overnight the full force of what might have happened had finally come home to Elise , and she 'd spent most of the day clucking round her young sister like a hen with one chick . |
| 27 | She had spent much of the week in and out of the air raid shelter dodging hit-and-run raiders who we knew were also reconnoitring for further attacks . |
| 28 | Because she had spent much of that day watching her mother supervise preparations for the traditional Gio ceremony observed by the family on each anniversary of her great-grandfather 's death , Lan knew the altar held all the favourite foods and beverages that the high-ranking courtier had enjoyed during his lifetime . |
| 29 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
| 30 | She told another foreign reporter that she had spent most of her time at the General Staff learning English . |