Example sentences of "that some time " in BNC.

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1 He said that some time ago the POWs fund was merged with a general purposes benefit fund for all old comrades of the regiment , but that POWs were given priority in any benefit payouts .
2 I thought if only I could steal that some time and destroy it , maybe she 'd have no proof of what was owed her .
3 The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost .
4 Years later , Jack was told that some time before his tenure of Bradley Fold West signal box a man from a nearby village was killed on the line .
5 I thought you might ask me about that some time , ’ he murmured .
6 He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home .
7 At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle .
8 ‘ You mention in your book that some time after the capitulation at Port Stanley , Gómez was given the job of testing an aircraft for its long-range capabilities , flying it out of that Argentine base at the bottom of Tierra del Fuego .
9 But these hold , perhaps , a life that some time else
10 You 're pleased about his engagement — he told me that some time ago — and you 've as good as admitted it tonight . ’
11 ‘ Following the elections there has been less high profile security presence in the area , ’ he said , adding that some time ago he asked for extra security measures for the town .
12 They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death .
13 It is essential that some time limit be placed on the time within which the ( landlord 's ) works are to be completed and the certificate of practical completion issued ( see clause 2.8 ) .
14 Acting for the buyer of a leasehold interest , remember that nowadays one seeks to register with an absolute title , instead of the good leasehold title that some time ago was much more common and acceptable .
15 Now yes this is very very welcome indeed , but I do see it Mr Chairman in the experience of the past and that really with the hard work that you both have put in as a piece of paper it is now in the computer as far as I can see and I think there is a term now within agriculture and I will give you an example of this and I think it now , it may apply I think to our road system particular particularly in the north , north Suffolk , yeah I think the term is set-aside , and I hope that some time central government will acknowledge that within this eastern region certainly the Lowestoft area and Waking area we have very great problems , because these pieces of jigsaw do not come into the full picture , they 're put in place now and then and later and in apparent it is giving us a very great problem certainly within the last
16 And I will tell you that some time next week what was the scope of it is .
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