Example sentences of "who 've spend " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working with Edward Herman , a business school professor , he 's especially good on showing how the companies create acceptable experts when ordinary ones — simple academics who 've spent lifetimes studying some area — ca n't be trusted not to point out inconvenient facts . |
| 2 | These chaps , good blokes who 've spent all their lives running businesses , believed the government manifesto and thought that if they shouted loud enough in the local paper , Whitehall would crumble and right would prevail . |
| 3 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 4 | Greg smashes his guitar , shoulder-barges the others , lurches suggestively over his co-singer , Paula Kelley , as she squats on the floor screaming her lungs out , leads an inspired , funny and very , very noisy version of ‘ Fight For Your Right To Party ’ , and finally stage-dives into the crush of pissed students who 've spent the evening trying to steal his microphone . |
| 5 | For experts who 've spent a career bringing pneumoconiosis under control , these revelations are deeply disturbing . |
| 6 | They give us their advice on what they know about the voluntary sector , and they give us guidance and help , in fact , the meeting took place er , only two days ago , and absolutely invaluable to be able to sit and listen to people who 've spent their life in the voluntary sector working with some of the difficulties we do n't appreciate . |
| 7 | Finally a look ahead to tomorrow 's programme when we 'll be following a detachment of airmen from RAF Lyneham who 've spent the last two months flying food to the starving in Somalia . |
| 8 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |
| 9 | She 'll be home to the volunteers who 've spent up to three thousand pounds for the chance to sail some of the seven seas . |
| 10 | But , as director Peter Wilson points out , a play demanding 10 actors , three sets and several costume changes is ‘ too big to tour ’ these days unless , of course , you have the backing of Mobil , who 've spent £1m on its touring theatre since 1986 . |