Example sentences of "he have spent [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had spent much time on the pier with William and Joe and had returned to find his pupils assembled , eager to learn for once . |
| 3 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
| 4 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 5 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |
| 6 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 7 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 8 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 9 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 10 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 11 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |