Example sentences of "he have spent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real pioneer of the Italian monodic style in Germany was one of his pupils , Johann Nauwach ( c. 1595–c. 1630 ) , who like him had spent some years in Italy . |
| 2 | Even when at training classes he does n't recognise the dogs he has spent his previous life with . |
| 3 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 4 | Speculation that he had turned his back on the fast world of Wall Street finance was fuelled by reports that he has spent his time in prison studying the Jewish religion . |
| 5 | They testify to the long hours he has spent working under the eye of his father , Bob . |
| 6 | By his own estimate he has spent £38 million in little over a year in his attempt to do so . |
| 7 | Round-the-World yachtsman Chay Blyth , 51 , is being sued for divorce by his wife , Margaret , on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour because of the time he has spent at sea . |
| 8 | An expert pharmacologist may not be subject to the authority of the government in matters of the safety of drugs , an inhabitant of a little village by a river may not be subject to its authority in matters of navigation and conservation of the river by the banks of which he has spent all his life . |
| 9 | Since then he has spent , in total , several hours in persuading people to climb into cupboards , clamber into lofts and crawl under stairs and watch carefully as he breaks peppermints in the gloom . |
| 10 | As chairman of the Pitcairn Island Fund , he believes that £2 million would be sufficient to buy Pitcairn a reasonably healthy , self-sufficient future , and he has spent the past two years trying , unsuccessfully , to persuade the British government to make some contribution . |
| 11 | He has spent 10 years living in London and the last four in Liphook . |
| 12 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 13 | Mike Baxter , senior research scientist at the Centre for Rural Building , Aberdeen , was at the National Pig Fair in April to help launch the Freedom farrowing system , which he has spent eight years designing . |
| 14 | There is no evidence that he has actually coached his chosen club but one feels that he has spent a lifetime imbibing its history . |
| 15 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 16 | The 64-year-old minister was nominated for the honour by colleagues at Walworth Methodist Church , south London , where he has spent the past 15 years campaigning tirelessly against racism and working to improve race relations within inner cities . |
| 17 | He has spent 37 years in the service , the last 12 in charge . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He has spent most of his life in a sterile unit at Newcastle General Hospital . |
| 20 | He has spent four one-hour sessions in the hyperbaric therapy unit — a pressurised cabin into which pure oxygen is fed . |
| 21 | He has spent his life campaigning for free trade unionism and free votes . |
| 22 | He estimates he has spent a total of 20,000 hours in front of flickering images on a silver screen . |
| 23 | Mr Major 's visit to Barcelona for the last two days of the Games will mean he has spent an astonishing 80 days out of recession gripped Britain in the 20 months since he came to power . |
| 24 | And Reid denies that Dalglish 's massive transfer splurge — he has spent more than £10 million in less than a year — has sent the market mad . |
| 25 | Clough said : ‘ Gary has impressed me very much in the month he has spent with us so far . |
| 26 | He has spent time in South Africa and has a tremendous admiration for their game . |
| 27 | During the past twenty years he has spent more and more time in Greece — and the paintings in the current exhibition of this veteran Abstract Expressionist at the ACA Galleries are the result of extended periods spent in Greece during the past two years ( 4 to 27 March ) . |
| 28 | Like his father before him , he has spent a lifetime fighting against Chaos warbands , raiding Norse , and marauding Orcs , not to mention the occasional forays of bandits from Kislev . |
| 29 | If work fails to sell , he has lost income on commission and , in addition , he has spent money on promoting the event and the private view . |
| 30 | Although he has spent most of his working life in academia he did have an eight- year stint , from 1963 , in industrial research . |