Example sentences of "i [verb] spent [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 4 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 5 | Because I 've spent more time trying it . |
| 6 | I 've spent enough time watching her paint me ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And now I 've spent enough time here — I have clients to see . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 9 | Finally , the concern with manipulation means that postclassical criminology is correctionalist , as were its classical and positivist predecessors ; that is why I have spent some time , in Chapter 3 , countering anti-correctionalist arguments . |
| 10 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |