Example sentences of "who [verb] spent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 2 | The Scottish Gallery has an exhibition of paintings by Roderick Carmichael , an Edinburgh-born artist who has spent the last 10 years in Australia . |
| 3 | The Maktoums ' main hope is now In The Wings , who has spent most of the season recuperating from an operation on a chipped knee . |
| 4 | Britain 's longest-serving unconvicted prisoner , Lorrain Esme Osman , who has spent nearly four years in custody pending attempts by Hong Kong to extradite him on fraud charges , asked the High Court to rule that he was being held unlawfully . |
| 5 | Both the Mucker shrine and its indignant notice are the work of Kavanagh 's younger brother , Dr Peter Kavanagh , now 73 , one-time Professor of Poetry at Wisconsin University , who has spent the past 25 years in New York promoting and publishing Patrick 's work . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She will meet Mrs Jones who has spent twenty years running a shelter for battered cats , and Mrs Jones is there . |
| 9 | They can recommend individuals for honours or awards — often the district postmistress who has spent fifty years behind the counter and then receives an unexpected OBE will have been suggested by the local lord lieutenant . |
| 10 | But the programme — accused by parents and staff of misrepresenting Summerhill — has done nothing to dent the enthusiasm of Shinichiro Hori , the 48-year-old professor of elementary education at Osaka University who has spent the past eight years planning and raising money to open Kinokuni . |
| 11 | My conscience tells me that I owe it to God to be grateful to my father , who has spent his time unwearyingly upon my education , so that I may lighten his burden , look after myself and later on be able to support my sister … |
| 12 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 13 | Fortunately , the importance and individuality of chapel architecture is now being recognized , thanks to the work of writers and teachers such as John Hilling and professor Anthony Jones , of the Texas Christian University , who has spent numerous summers visiting and photographing chapels . |
| 14 | First across the threshold was longest serving resident 78-year-old Nellie Everett who has spent the past 16 years at Kingsley Ward . |
| 15 | It is a view from the terraces written by a fan who has spent a lifetime supporting two of the world 's great lost causes , the Scotland national team and St Johnstone FC . |
| 16 | The NCCED and the other organisations listed on pages 145–7 offer support and counselling for a woman who has spent the whole of her life caring for parents or a relative who has died . |
| 17 | Furthermore , anyone who has spent days and nights cramped into hides being rained on , only to have every twinge of discomfort dispelled instantly by the appearance of a bird or animal , will recognise the authenticity of Tomkies 's experiences watching eagles . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A Dutchman with the added merit of an MBA from Lancaster , he is a marketing specialist who has spent much of his 19-year career with the company immersed in detergents . |
| 20 | She is a natural historian who has spent years researching and collecting information about Baldersdale and the surrounding area , delivering lectures to local societies and writing for Teesdale publications . |
| 21 | Led by parish councillor Jan Dyer who has spent two ‘ very successful days ’ working with fellow councillors and other people from the village at the pond site , the working party are now waiting until the pond is dredged before carrying out further work . |
| 22 | ‘ I was obsessed with cleaning ’ The story of Diane White who has spent years fighting her compulsion . |
| 23 | Spry , who has spent the duration of the interview waiting for his chicken and pineapple pizza to arrive , flicks through a copy of Vogue Collection . |
| 24 | The objective reality of such an energy distribution system is thoroughly documented by Dr Hiroshi Motoyama of Tokyo , who has spent thirty years researching the subject of Bio-energy and from results of tests conducted over a fifteen-year period qualifies his work in these words |
| 25 | Banker Alan Clarke , who has spent years working in America , says : ‘ The American women I have been out with have always been successful and good-looking but they do n't have the ability to laugh at themselves . |
| 26 | Our list highlights the magistrate who has helped those coping with unemployment or sudden redundancy and the woman who has spent her life helping animals . |
| 27 | PC World is also about to introduce low-cost training at its Croydon superstore surely a great boon to anyone who has spent days getting to grips with a user manual the size of a telephone directory ! |
| 28 | He is also the latest discovery of British psychologist Dr Neil O'Connor , the world 's foremost expert on savants and the man who has spent the past ten years helping to unlock the genius trapped within their flawed minds . |
| 29 | In the past Keith , who has spent periods drying out in a clinic , has said his problems were related to overwork , stress and too much drinking . |
| 30 | Now the 38-year-old player-manager , who has spent more than £4m in 17 months at the helm , will back Wednesday with a pledge of his own , signing a long-term deal within the next fortnight . |