Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had spend " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think you 've been hurt , and yes , you have , but you 're still better off than the ones who had to spend their time in institutions , you still had somewhere to go , did n't you . |
| 2 | Bobby Robson , the England manager , who had spent the weekend pondering the merits of possible deputies for his club colleague Neil Webb , a long-term casualty , expressed ‘ surprise and delight ’ at the news that England midfield disruption may be kept to a minimum . |
| 3 | ALMOST 24 hours late , the first of several chartered trains left Prague for the West last night , carrying some of the 12,000 East German emigrants who had spent another night and a day on the chilly pavements around the West German embassy or in the embassy 's increasingly squalid grounds . |
| 4 | ‘ Infested with tourists and mosquitoes ’ — the verdict of some friends who had spent a weekend in ‘ the Venice of the North ’ earlier in the summer flashed through my mind . |
| 5 | It was no coincidence , perhaps , that its president was the Marquess of Salisbury , married to Mollie Salisbury who had spent so much time helping with the garden at Highgrove . |
| 6 | For his son , Rock , who had spent most of his life adoring his father like a god , ‘ it was somewhat like the feeling … it 's late at night and you 're alone on the Tube riding with a bunch of thugs and they get off your car . ’ |
| 7 | Pinza was owned by Sir Victor Sassoon ( who had spent a huge amount of money over many years trying to win the Derby ) and trained by Norman Bertie . |
| 8 | A Canadian was appointed to the Press Office , followed in 1960 by Heseltine , a career civil servant from Western Australia , who had spent the previous four years as private secretary to Robert Menzies . |
| 9 | Deciding to become involved in politics , he first sought out Lord Plowden , one of the grandest figures of the Great and Good , who had spent the thirty years since the war as one of Whitehall 's most distinguished gofers . |
| 10 | Our lecturer , who had spent months translating hieroglyphics there , said that entering the great , dim temple was for her , even now , like swimming into a warm patch of sea . |
| 11 | The public dipped deep into their pockets to set free Rocky , a dolphin who had spent all his adult life in captivity . |
| 12 | All the greatest journalistic intelligences in the business , who had spent the past few weeks travelling around with their ears to the ground , confirmed it . |
| 13 | Such was the confusion that the BBC , who had spent three hours covering the race , only just managed to catch the men 's finish and went off air without knowing the second and third-placed finishers , despite a warning on Friday that such an eventuality was possible . |
| 14 | Terence Evans , 50 , who had spent 31 years in the Foreign Office , was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court after admitting falsifying accounts to cover his activities . |
| 15 | One such was the 27-year-old Keith Littlejohn , who had spent time in Borstal after robbing an elderly shopkeeper . |
| 16 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 17 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 18 | This was similar to the proportion receiving help from district and other nurses among those who had not spent any time in such homes once sudden deaths and those who had spent all their last year in hospital have been excluded . |
| 19 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 20 | His mother , who had spent longer with him in the garden than usual that day , led him into the sitting room when they returned to the house . |
| 21 | The Welsh campaign was actively supported by Don Arnott , a retired nuclear scientist who had spent most of his life working on the uses of radioactivity in medicine . |
| 22 | Ella Bembridge , for once without a cigarette in her mouth , worked as stoutly as the men , and would have forced her way into the building to collect some of Dimity 's treasures if she had not been forbidden to do so by Harold , who had taken charge with all the ready authority of one who had spent his life organising others . |
| 23 | A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school . |
| 24 | Walford , a charcoal-burner who had spent his solitary life in a woodland shelter built of poles and turf , was remembered by Tom Poole as a man ‘ remarkable for good temper and generosity ’ , but one who also possessed ‘ ardent feelings and strong passions ’ . |
| 25 | It was the evening of a fortnightly pay Friday , and the working people , who had spent a percentage of their earnings in the public houses , were gathered en masse in front of the railway ticket office , to purchase tickets for the ‘ stand-up carriages ’ ( carriages in which there were not seats ) , to convey them to Glasgow ; they hooted , yelled , swore , crushed , and fought like fiends , and the depraved look engraved on many faces made one shudder . |
| 26 | For the novice , who had spent a mere two months in training in the city , far from home in Scottish pit village or Norfolk town , the introduction to beat work was like plunging into a cold shower . |
| 27 | A London Christian , who had spent fifteen years in many branches of the occult before his conversion at the Luis Palau mission at Queens Park Rangers soccer stadium in 1985 , said : ‘ In my experience , there are not too many differences between the first group of witches and satanists . |
| 28 | The old man who had spent his life acquiring beautiful costly things drew a deep breath , and stood as if transfixed . |
| 29 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 30 | It was typical of the man who had spent so much time in Four Marks working for the community . |