Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The educational psychologist spent some time explaining the legal side of Statementing , which is complex . |
| 2 | Toby spent some time smoothing the ruffled sensibilities of Corbett Farraday ( ‘ I mean , after all , when you n–y to give them a bit of fun … ‘ ) , then he went to check the changing huts , which Bill Muggeridge usually forgot to lock after his afternoon tearing round blowing whistles at the boys . |
| 3 | The G-BUM series appears to have been passed over — with G-BUMF and G-BUMP allotted some time ago we can not believe the CAA has turned prudish in its old age … ! |
| 4 | The Club started some time ago and has had as many as thirty members in the past but now numbers have dwindled to fifteen . |
| 5 | The partnership took some time to sell . |
| 6 | This involves helping staff through the possible stages of individual crises identified some time ago in the USA , eg the phases of ‘ shock ’ , ‘ defensive retreat ’ , ‘ acknowledgement ’ , ‘ adaption and change ’ Fink , Beak and Taddeo , 1971 ) . |
| 7 | This desire , Hilton says , is the " love of Iesu " which is the ground of salvation whether or not man experiences the joy and love in the kind of illuminated understanding which is the special gift of the contemplative : Hilton spends some time at this stage of the book finding imaginative ways of pointing to the goal of contemplative discipline — the finding of Jesus who is lost in man 's soul as a treasure buried in a field ( c.49 ) but who also is a joy beyond all that desiring can encompass ( c.46 ) . |
| 8 | It looks as though Richard had some time ago given up his insistence that Angoulême should be inherited by Vulgrin 's daughter Matilda . |
| 9 | He pointed out that modifying the credit acquisition policies might have only a minimal effect , since most of the losses were from cases accepted some time ago . |
| 10 | Mercifully , by the third day Nigel got some time on his own and was able to go out and buy a meal . |
| 11 | The report shows that the committee devoted some time to analysing a helpful report from the Health Education Authority , ’ Beating the Ban ’ , which was published in 1990 . |
| 12 | Once the baby is settled , make sure the child has some time all to herself when she gets a cuddle and your undivided attention . |
| 13 | Neighbours say the gunman spent some time outside the house . |
| 14 | In nineteen seventy four , Reg spent some time at the National Circus School in Paris , where he learnt , amongst other things , that the life of a circus performer was not for him . |
| 15 | Pammy Jane spent some time with her parents after the split before moving to the Highgrove estate near Tetbury , Glos . |
| 16 | Constituency work takes some time and leads to a multiplicity of minor preoccupations but it by no means occupies the entire day . |
| 17 | ‘ So young Boden spent some time alone in there , alive and active . |
| 18 | Thus , where a covenant in a lease provided for the payment of rent in advance , the tenant was not entitled to prove an antecedent oral agreement under which he was to pay by way of bill of exchange maturing some time after tender ( Henderson v Arthur [ 1907 ] 1 KB 10 ) . |
| 19 | ’ … into Taunton yesterday , ’ he became conscious of Tessa saying some time later , ‘ to get some special new antibiotic for Jester . |
| 20 | Edgar wicket keeper , innkeeper and redoubtable raconteur confided some time after midnight that to help run in his pain-free new hip joint he 'd taken an early morning paper round in Aycliffe village . |
| 21 | As the mother of two sons myself , I now find my childhood reaction extreme , and am led to suspect that my separation anxiety originated some time before the birth of my sister . |
| 22 | Complaints from parents took some time to appear . |
| 23 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 24 | Behind the external appearance of harshness and reserve lay sensitivity , suffering , even humour ; Wordsworth took some time to get to know , but those who dared to make the attempt were often agreeably surprised . |
| 25 | Heath went some time in March , I think . |
| 26 | At the end of the session spend some time in free discussion about the method . |
| 27 | Leslie , the former All Black captain , took over the Wellington team some time after Kirton departed that job . |
| 28 | In the ten years since the author spent some time making films about the rich animal life of Sri Lanka for the ‘ Survival ’ series of documentaries , that pendant has , alas , been ripped from its setting . |
| 29 | In between Dance Energy series , he 's been making demo tapes , with the aim of securing a record deal some time in the future . |
| 30 | This query took some time to reach Cedric . |