Example sentences of "just spent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside are five potential recruits who have just spent twenty-four hours being briefed , tested , interviewed and assessed . |
| 2 | Ian Franchi , of Britain 's Open University , and his colleagues have just spent three weeks on crampons and skidoos , combing the ice sheet for these itinerant boulders . |
| 3 | He 's just spent the whole day talking to journalists . |
| 4 | But , from Durham , Dick Wilkinson writes : ‘ I 've just spent the last half-hour with my arm down the toilet trying to unblock it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just spent an hour and a quarter waiting for him not to be here . ’ |
| 6 | Never give your full address to someone that you have just spent your first evening with . |
| 7 | STATUS series 2000 , £300 just spent on refinish by Status , new hardware etc . |
| 8 | For instance , you 've decided to run the TriAxis through a couple of Boogie combos ( sorry , I 've just spent £4,500 for you ! ) . |
| 9 | However , I 've just spent an interesting few minutes with my nose in line with the needles , gingerly winding the transfer carriage along with the ribber on half pitch — all in the interests of this article you understand , while hoping I would n't damage the transfer needle ! |
| 10 | I 've just spent two days looking for thread . |
| 11 | She had , after all , just spent some years in a country where shortages were common and varieties of goods few . |
| 12 | Mr Edwards has just spent two weeks in Japan . |
| 13 | Jones had already used a variety of materials , one of which was palladium , and was preparing to obtain the final proof with his detector that he had just spent two years building . |
| 14 | I have just spent several hours glued to the television at a friend 's house , watching in horror as incomprehensible events began to unfold in South Central Los Angeles . |
| 15 | When my ‘ ex ’ was sacked from his job some months ago they stopped altogether — though he has just spent two weeks in Spain with his girl-friend and new family . |
| 16 | Having just spent a few nights in a major-accident ward , I 'd rather be late than hurry . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I suspect Mr. Preston , that I 've just spent the most sensible dollar of my life . ’ |
| 18 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 19 | We 've just spent a very pleasant evening together at the theatre . |
| 20 | Just spent 24 hours on a bus with the dashboard covered in St Christophers or whatever the local version hereabouts is . |
| 21 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 22 | He had just spent seven years in Spain as papal nuncio and made the acquaintance of Caldéron ; the setting is Spanish and the romantic element is stronger . |
| 23 | Young , able , married and with a young family , he is manager of an insurance firm , having just spent three years in America . |
| 24 | The captain pointed out she had just spent all her friend had left her . |
| 25 | ‘ Because , ’ Polly said crisply , ‘ you 've just spent the entire day yelling at me , and telling me how slow , clumsy , and generally useless I am . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 've just spent heaven knows how long checking our approach to Ibiza . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ This new-found modesty is very admirable , sweetheart , but a little out of place when you 've just spent the night in my arms . ’ |
| 29 | For the present the chances of survival are good — BR have just spent a lot of money replacing the Glanrhyd bridge , the scene of a tragic accident two years ago , also on track and signalling improvements . |
| 30 | He 'd just spent the morning on one of his more unusual assignments — photographing pigs with a ‘ food ball ’ . |