Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wendell 's voice was quiet and matter-of-fact as he said , ‘ I guessed some time ago that you 'd fallen for Harry . ’ |
| 2 | I joined some time in the late thirties when I was a young member of the Foreign Office . ’ |
| 3 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 4 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 5 | Throughout 1969 I spent some time each month visiting schools , and attending yet more meetings in Curzon Street . |
| 6 | When I first came , I spent some time with Sue , she 's the manager . |
| 7 | I spent some time with him after he drove back into the pit-lane and he was very categorical about his decision : ‘ It is simply not worth it , ’ he said . |
| 8 | During the summer of 1971 , soon after the ‘ discovery ’ , for the second time , of my disability , I spent some time in hospital . |
| 9 | I spent some time with another elderly miner in Sunderland . |
| 10 | I spent some time every day looking after her , and the rest of the time with my cousins , listening to their plans for the future . |
| 11 | It is a particularly painful spot to be kicked and I spent some time hopping round the byre and cursing in a fervent whisper . |
| 12 | ‘ As I told you , I spent some time writing letters and when I 'd finished I thought it would be pleasant to get some fresh air so I went out and posted them — in the box outside the main post office — ’ |
| 13 | After finishing the course in June , I spent some time travelling within Eastern Europe and then spent two months in Austria to improve my German . |
| 14 | You may remember I spent some time in Paris — not the most pleasant of times freezing in the snow , chased by wolves and being half-hanged at Montfaucon . |
| 15 | I spent some time in discussion in Oman , not about the minesweepers but about the much more valuable corvette order that the Omanis are seeking to place , and I was given very satisfactory assurances by His Majesty the Sultan about those orders . |
| 16 | I spent some time in Japan . |
| 17 | ‘ I needed some time on my own . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I needed some time alone in which to get my head together — you 're very much of a distraction , ’ he murmured . |
| 19 | The other device I saw some time ago was a timing light for diesels , this obtained its triggering pulse from a sensor clipped to no.1 injector pipe . |
| 20 | While loading Frankenstein I took some time to read the inlay . |
| 21 | ‘ I did some time with Sister Lovejoy last year , and I 've done some orthopaedics . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 23 | I went out to the theatre and the opera a lot , and when I had some time off , I was usually able to get away somewhere . |
| 24 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 25 | If I had some time on my own with them I might squeeze something out , but I 'm inhibited in front of the neighbours . |
| 26 | When I was in the U.S. recently for the Walker Cup match I had some time to read their golf magazines , watch television golf and talk with some of the golf club members of my father-in-law 's country club . |
| 27 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 28 | Other recent imports which have yet to aspire to UK marks include a pair of Aeronca 11AC Chiefs , NC3458E and N86359 , which arrived some time ago at Compton Abbas and are now undergoing rebuilt for UK registry while similarly the frame of Stinson 108 N97915 is being slowly worked on in the gliding club hangar at Booker . |
| 29 | Sam followed , only detained by trying to shut the door properly , which took some time . |
| 30 | ‘ As soon as we got him to a doctor — which took some time — it was discovered that Major Maxim must have held the ammonia under our man 's nose while pouring some odourless spirit — quite possibly strong vodka — onto the blindfold in order to produce the stinging sensation . ’ |