Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] spend some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 2 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 3 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 5 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 6 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | Finally , the concern with manipulation means that postclassical criminology is correctionalist , as were its classical and positivist predecessors ; that is why I have spent some time , in Chapter 3 , countering anti-correctionalist arguments . |
| 9 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 10 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 12 | That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you want to spend some time on those ECG tracings this afternoon , George ? |
| 14 | And you 've spent some time doing this , do n't you , Adam ? |
| 15 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 16 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 17 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 18 | Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families . |
| 19 | Owen loved the bustle of the bazaars , of the whole native city , in fact ; but after you had spent some time in them , especially when it was as hot as this , you felt an overwhelming need for space and air , and after forcing their way through the blocked thoroughfares of the Tentmakers ' Bazaar they were glad to emerge into the more open streets . |
| 20 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 21 | " You have to spend some time on the practice tee , and you have to take a different approach every day . |
| 22 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
| 23 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 24 | We have spent some time on the preliminaries , particularly the notation , because notation is essential for communication and because it is often neglected as a stage in attacking a problem . |
| 25 | Finally we need to spend some time considering the role of decentralised administration in the public sector . |
| 26 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 27 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 28 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 29 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 30 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |