Example sentences of "i [verb] spent [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd spent all day going there had n't I , half a day going there . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 3 | I had spent many years teaching the EFATO to PPL students , but this was different . |
| 4 | I had spent six months at the Admiralty 's expense at Cambridge acquiring an interpretership in Russian . |
| 5 | I had spent four hours catching nothing and he simply swooped down and lifted a trout of at least 2lb from under my nose . |
| 6 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 7 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 8 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 9 | I had spent three years researching contemporary mysticism , and it was through John Michel , a colleague of mine who was an authority on Druid mythology and the ancient sites of Britain , that I first met Ringo . |
| 10 | Before that , I had spent three years as an education officer at Marwell Zoo Park , followed by several months as a wildlife officer at Lilongwe Nature Sanctuary in Malawi . |
| 11 | The suitcases stand in the hallway , repacked with clothes I 've spent all night washing and pressing . |
| 12 | Let all the damn horses out — I 've spent all morning going round the lanes rounding the brutes up again ! ‘ |
| 13 | I 've spent thirty years as a Company Shock Trooper , and IMC 's the best thing that ever happened to me . |
| 14 | I 've spent four years making very certain I do n't care . |
| 15 | I 've spent six weeks with my axe to the grindstone , rebuilding the car and these thieving toe-rags have come along and taken it . ’ |
| 16 | I 've spent 13 years travelling the world with badminton — I was coach to the Australian side at the last World Championships — and it will be nice to spend some time at home . |
| 17 | I 've spent 14 years in East Africa , most of it working with tropical rainforest and its utilisation , so I 've been in Uganda , which is a relatively small country as far as forests are concerned . |
| 18 | Now I 've spent seventeen years in Hartlepool and yes that er |
| 19 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 20 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 21 | They 've got it at the Law College and I 've I 've spent some lunchtimes fiddling with it and thinking I want ! |
| 22 | Because I 've spent more time trying it . |
| 23 | I 've spent enough time watching her paint me ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And now I 've spent enough time here — I have clients to see . ’ |
| 25 | Mrs Kavanagh 's claim can not be , because I 've spent 25 years editing , arranging and completing his work . |
| 26 | I have spent all day there . |
| 27 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 28 | I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination . |
| 29 | I have not been kind to my back ; I had accidents when I was a boy , tree-climbing and biking , and I have spent many years skiing . |
| 30 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |