Example sentences of "[vb infin] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect she 'll let you and Oliver come and stay some time . |
| 2 | How the Other Half Lives A divorced woman rings her ex-spouse : Perhaps you could spare some time to see the children on Saturday … |
| 3 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll try and make some time . |
| 5 | But you 're , but you 're quite right you , you certainly , you certainly have the right to say look , you know , rather than signing this now er I do need some time to think I mean let's face it there 's a load of s If you turn it over on the back of the credit agree |
| 6 | Er but erm obviously I 'll sometimes need some time to get back to you . |
| 7 | But I 'll need some time . |
| 8 | For instance , you might decide to really need some time to yourself . |
| 9 | No but I like her and everything but holy shit , I really I do need some time to go to school and like be by myself . |
| 10 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 11 | He 's published three books of poetry , and two novels , and several works of literary criticism , the last of these , The Uses of Nostalgia , appeared in nineteen seventy two , and I understand , since this is a privileged occasion and puffs are in order , that his next book of poems , Arthur , will appear some time this year . |
| 12 | Well well he said when he 's not there she comes home she cooks them an evening meal but she 's she she 's she 's got a p , he said she 's got ta give some time to Harriet , that 's not fair |
| 13 | Well do you want , would you like to come and look some time with me ? |
| 14 | News is that the first single , ‘ One Day , One Time ’ , will emerge some time during September , while an album now seems a certainty for 1993 . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd like some time on your own with Laura , would n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | So , a P E P is erm er introduced by er Mr Lawson , who you might remember some time ago had er a job as the Chancellor and is now working part-time in the City . |
| 17 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 18 | Those waiting to fire would receive first aid instruction , and then afterwards everyone would spend some time in the gas chamber wearing NBC kit . |
| 19 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 20 | He was consumed with desire for the possession to come and whenever he could he tried to add to the 45/ in the Post Office Savings Bank so that they could spend some time away together with Dad Uzzell . |
| 21 | Most people when they 've experienced a burglary will spend some time , perhaps minutes , perhaps hours , trying to absorb what has happened to them . |
| 22 | In ordinary circumstances the family contemplating spending a considerable amount of money would probably spend some time shopping around getting quotations . |
| 23 | On Sundays , the family would spend some time together around the Bible . |
| 24 | Estimates suggest that between a fifth and a quarter of children may spend some time in a one-parent family . |
| 25 | Otherwise , the patient might spend some time in a private nursing home , possibly paid for by the State . |
| 26 | Once he is safe , let him spend some time alone . |
| 27 | If you do your own surveying and/or conveyancing you will spend some time at the Council offices checking with the building and planning officials . |
| 28 | A key worker may spend some time with her or his clients , listening , asking simple questions and rehearsing facts like the day , the month and the weather . |
| 29 | In modern viticultural establishments the grafts will spend some time in hot-room callusing boxes to develop a protective skin or callus over the grafting wound before they are planted into the nursery beds , and finally into the vineyard the following season . |
| 30 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |