Example sentences of "[v-ing] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 2 | This had an iron undershot wheel but ceased operating some time in the 1920s . |
| 3 | You should try looking some time , ’ Donna said with gleeful malice . |
| 4 | Since the Danish Government does not intend to had another referendum before the summer of 1993 , there is at the moment of writing some time left for cool deliberation by parliamentarians as well as by the public they serve . |
| 5 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 6 | After waiting some time , instead of going to my bedroom and packing again , as before dinner I 'd been so certain , at last , of being able to do , I went in search of him . |
| 7 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
| 8 | After spending some time , often years , with us , people move on to other things and we need to fill the gaps . ’ |
| 9 | After spending some time with the injured fan , Baggio said that if there was any violence during last Sunday 's game between the same two sides he would ask to be substituted . |
| 10 | Between the two examinations he spent a few necessary days of recuperation at Swindon , spending some time with Dad Uzzell . |
| 11 | He was advised that his best chances for advancement in life lay in spending some time at the royal court and seeking some government office . |
| 12 | The descriptions were perfect , even to George 's crooked thumb , but it was rumoured that they had fled north to Newcastle after spending some time in the Midlands . |
| 13 | After spending some time in an all-night diner on 42nd Street , a calculatedly unshaven Dustin just melted into the atmosphere . |
| 14 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 15 | Finding a special moulding can be a real inspiration for a picture and really boost one 's enthusiasm , so spending some time searching for the perfect frame , or one that is very unusual , can be highly profitable . |
| 16 | There is not enough time to meet even short-term demands for preparation , marking , report-writing , sorting out pupils ' disputes and clearing up heat-of-the-moment misunderstandings with colleagues , let alone to invest in the longer-term necessities of clearing the backlog of paperwork , replying to letters , ordering supplies , planning schemes of work , reorganizing last year 's course , thinking about what your tutor group can contribute to the fourth year assembly , setting up a meeting with the educational psychologist about Jessica , and spending some time with the word processor manual . |
| 17 | It is worth spending some time in showing that this assumption is false , and why the theories that employ it should be rejected . |
| 18 | Will you have the opportunity of spending some time with London Agents , and if so what are the financial terms likely to be ? |
| 19 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 20 | If you 're interested in spending some time with people who know what you 're going through , or you just want to watch a video , then you do n't need to make an appointment . |
| 21 | I can not overstate the value of spending some time with a competent goldpanner . |
| 22 | The following summer he again went to Germany , spending some time at the University of Berlin in desultory study . |
| 23 | ‘ I mean , I 'm very pleased she 's off on a holiday with her friend , but I was looking forward to spending some time with her … ’ |
| 24 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 25 | De Glanville though spending some time here at Halling , was a much travelled man , rather I should say kept continuously on the run for these were most troubled times and towards the latter part of his life an interdict was placed on the country and it is recorded he was buried without a service . |
| 26 | Meeting Nur Bai was clearly one of the highlights of Khan 's visit to Delhi and at the end of his description he quietly drops in the fact that he ‘ had the good fortune of spending some time in her company … ’ |
| 27 | It came as a very pleasant surprise to me when I learned that you were in the habit of spending some time in this part of the world . |
| 28 | Dermot says : ‘ My brother Ken was on a round the world trip and went to Nepal after spending some time in India . |
| 29 | After spending some time at 's at Mundford , transferred to Eagle Mill in the early '70s and has been with us ever since . |
| 30 | He stayed in most evenings now , spending some time in his study and some time chatting to his benefactress . |