Example sentences of "[verb] spent [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poet and painter Adrian Henri has spent much time in Dieppe and its environs . |
| 2 | Every Rentokil person in Water and Ventilation , Tropical Plants and Medical Services has spent much time and energy developing SSG & FQS this year and now they will really shoot us way into the lead . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her mother added : ‘ Mia has spent many nights crying . |
| 5 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 6 | According to Koen Van Waerebeek , who has spent many years studying the dolphin hunt , hardly anyone in Peru is aware of the true nature of chancho marino . |
| 7 | WE WERE a small group : Soeriaatmadja , the head of Indonesia 's Elephant Task Force , Graham Child , the director of Zimbabwe 's National Park Service , Iain Douglas-Hamilton , who has spent many years observing elephants in East Africa , and me . |
| 8 | Ms Anderson , who has spent many years living and working in London and Washington , was visiting Torquay for the BA Conference . |
| 9 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 10 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 11 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 12 | This Government has spent more money on training than any other Government si in our history , two and a half times as much in real terms as when Labour were in office . |
| 13 | But I think the club has spent more money than it could afford . |
| 14 | It is a fact that Ken Schofield has spent more hours than he cares to recall on the " South African affair " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Over the past year Alastair has spent more time cycling , putting in up to 150 miles a week . |
| 17 | The Strategic Defence Initative Organisation , which over the past decade has spent some $10 billion in answer to Ronald Reagan 's call for a defence that would make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete , is no more . |
| 18 | So far , the Ship and Ocean Foundation has spent some ¥5 billion ( $36m ) on the Yamato-1 and its SEMP drives . |
| 19 | Cynrik has spent some years researching the crash and succeeded in tracing Sgt Fenton 's younger brother , Raymond . |
| 20 | On the very day of the dinner Charlotte Poole was writing in her journal : ‘ We are shocked to hear that Mr. Thelwall has spent some time at Stowey this week with Mr. Coleridge , and consequently with Tom Poole . |
| 21 | Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning |
| 22 | Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there . |
| 23 | Les , with the active support of his wife Pam , has spent several years listing the 1,000 prisoners , 600 of them RAF and himself among them , who were drafted to Ambon from Java in April 1943 . |
| 24 | George has spent several years working for one of Office Cleaning 's main suppliers prior to joining Rentokil . |
| 25 | Peter has spent several months fine tuning the features of the service , and is now marketing it directly . |
| 26 | I 'd spent all day going there had n't I , half a day going there . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , so would you if you 'd spent all night in them tunnels ! — How did you know I was in there , anyway ? ’ |
| 28 | as if he 'd known she 'd spent all night wondering about the feel of his lips on hers , about how it would be if he kissed her . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Having spent that time programming some sounds I feel proud of , I 'm not so sure . |