Example sentences of "and he have spent the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , at last , some nasty little spots began to appear , and he had spent the last night of the year sitting up in bed and holding his pyjama jacket away from his afflictions , Joan put her foot down . |
| 2 | Kretschmer 's end had come in the spring of 1941 at almost the same time as his great rivals Schepke and Prien , when his U.99 was sunk by a destroyer commanded by Captain Donald Macintyre , and he had spent the rest of the war as a prisoner . |
| 3 | Horses were his love and he had spent the best years of his life working at the Galloway stables . |
| 4 | Hans and he had spent the last winter in Nice and it was the only place he wanted to avoid ; the memories were still too painful . |
| 5 | It was late September now , and he had spent the day keeping an eye lifting at the weather , which promised foul . |
| 6 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 7 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It started life as a graduation film and he has spent the last two years finishing it . |