Example sentences of "have spent [det] 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 that time programming some sounds I feel proud of , I 'm not so sure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury . |
| 9 | It had been a well-known fact that their last medical officer had spent little time studying new methods of health and safety and accident prevention and there had been an ever-present air of friction between himself and Ron Banks . |
| 10 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |
| 13 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
| 14 | Because I 've spent more time trying it . |
| 15 | I 've spent enough time watching her paint me ! ’ |
| 16 | And you 've spent some time doing this , do n't you , Adam ? |
| 17 | But no , you have spent enough time writing to a poor ignorant serving girl . |
| 18 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 19 | That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own . |
| 20 | 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 . |