Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There have been earlier references to the changing and elastic notion of priorities which takes some time to come to terms with . |
| 4 | Sam followed , only detained by trying to shut the door properly , which took some time . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Research was carried out on the stability of such ferries , which took some time . |
| 7 | ON August 25 , 1992 , in a report about the large amount of divorce legal costs , we inadvertently stated , due to a typographical error , that average costs of cases which take some time amounted to £250,000 , when the correct figure should be £25,000 . |
| 8 | A clue comes with the final disappearance of the cat , when it slowly vanishes , starting with the end of its tail and ending with the broad grin , which remains some time after the rest of the animal has gone . |
| 9 | ‘ It vanished quite slowly , beginning with the end of the tail , and ending with the grin , which remained some time after the rest of it had gone . ’ |
| 10 | But on the question of grant maintained , of course , let's not forget what happened some time ago in places like Manchester Grammar School erm long before we had this new opting out legislation they were forced by the Labour Government to go direct grant , which they did , and they are a highly successful and I could rehearse just as many success stories , in fact many times more than Jack has rehearsed with his Hull Grammar School . |