Example sentences of "he have spend [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 2 | Property expert Kevin Dibben said : ‘ It 's a nice house but he has spent more time and effort on the property than it is worth . |
| 3 | The boy , who ca n't be identified , hit the headlines in June … after revelations that he 'd spent several weeks at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca at tax payers ' expense . |
| 4 | Several of the dormitories were flooded because of the water , including Endill 's , and he had to spend some nights sleeping in Mr Rumback 's room . |
| 5 | He had spent much time on the pier with William and Joe and had returned to find his pupils assembled , eager to learn for once . |
| 6 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
| 7 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 10 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 11 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 12 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 13 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 14 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |
| 15 | It is as if he had spent several weeks at the headquarters of MI6 learning the techniques of counter-interrogation . |
| 16 | He had spent several years in the Sudan and he gave us a tip : ‘ Never take a taxi there , ’ he said , ‘ without fixing the price for the journey before you get in . ’ |
| 17 | He had spent several years amongst the small Indonesian islands off Singapore . |
| 18 | One tradition maintains that embarrassment drove him off after he had spent several nights in Ayr tolbooth ( jail ) for stealing a magistrate 's apples . |