Example sentences of "we have spent " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd spent seven years rehearsing the same plays , playing in the same team , calling the same teachers by their nicknames and falling in love with the same classmates . |
| 2 | We 'd spent a couple of days practising the relay . |
| 3 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 4 | We used to play marbles in the alley-way together , and sail paper boats down the gutter when it rained , and we 'd spent all our hot summers together playing rounders on the field over the railway line and helping with the donkey-rides on the beach . |
| 5 | There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily . |
| 6 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ I had already decided that we 'd spent far too long apart . |
| 8 | But when you said what you did about the night we 'd spent together … ’ |
| 9 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 10 | Well we was only saying we 'd spent eighty something odd |
| 11 | ‘ We 've spent x Francs in the last accounting period which is y pounds . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've spent lots of time in the fields and woods this summer . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money on you , ' ’ they told the animal ‘ 'why are n't you performing ? ' ’ ''Ah , ’ replied the bull , ‘ 'I was only sent here in an advisory capacity . ' ’ |
| 14 | We 've spent years developing the perfect formulation . |
| 15 | We 've spent two years meeting , talking , going to other meetings , we should get involved in doing something practical . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope so , considering the time and energy we 've spent planning it . |
| 17 | We 've spent our lives watching TV , staring at the box , until everything from Wogan to war washes over us . |
| 18 | In America , we 've spent years developing better cotton . |
| 19 | We 've spent the first month in our new house with an assortment of builders , damp-proofers , wood-wormers , plasterers , plumbers and painters . |
| 20 | Crime ‘ We 've spent thousands on the project and every Kray fan will want one for Christmas . |
| 21 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
| 22 | Wembley 's Martin Corrie said : ‘ We 've spent a great deal of money substantially improving our toilets and we 're in the process of installing additional facilities for ladies . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've spent a lot of money increasing and improving the toilets , ’ says Windsor 's Eram Osman , who added : ‘ It does n't matter so much for men — they can always go behind the bushes and we have plenty of those here . ’ |
| 24 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 25 | at the present time we 're saying to on the monthly report we 're saying to the client , we 've spent three thousand out of five thousand , and their anticipated final cost is going to be five thousand . |
| 26 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 27 | We 've spent years examining the Bridge systems , but for all the good it 's done us we might have been blowing bubbles . |
| 28 | Instead we 've spent the last 60 or so years trying to live up the likes of Jean Harlow , Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly . |
| 29 | I mean , if you think of say , the time we 've spent talking about functions and mapping . |
| 30 | We 've both changed during the time we 've spent apart . |