Example sentences of "have spent some [noun sg] [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 | We have spent some space reviewing Lieberson 's arguments because he provokes an important critical reaction which is necessary to uproot the widespread belief that the survey is the answer to social research 's dreams . |
| 9 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 10 | That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own . |
| 11 | 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 . |