Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 2 | Well first let me say erm in answer to a question you put some time ago , what is it what is in this budget for the people of Oxfordshire , and all you got from both Councillor Waldon and Councillor Barnes was a list of the cuts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most years he spent some time in Anagni or Segni , his home region ; otherwise Rome was his main place of residence . |
| 5 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 6 | While loading Frankenstein I took some time to read the inlay . |
| 7 | as an honest man You know some time we 've got to decide what we 're gon na do when , as soon as we get to Thailand and where we wan na go first . |
| 8 | After leaving the Dardanelles he spent some time in Salonika and Egypt , before being posted as brigadier-general ( November 1915 ) on the staff of the reserve corps led by Sir Hubert Gough [ q.v. ] on the western front . |
| 9 | In spite of the garden we took some time to get accustomed to our new way of living . |
| 10 | In the last two chapters we took some time to reach the chosen texts . |
| 11 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 12 | In fact it took some time to make effective progress , in part because of institutional changes ; Lord Portal replaced Lord Reith , and in 1943 a separate Ministry of Town and Country Planning was set up . |