Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] some time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An objective is a clear , precise forecast of what you want to achieve some time in the future . |
| 2 | I was going out later and Sophie and I were going to spend some time on the beach with the two girls . |
| 3 | I am going to spend some time with my family . ’ |
| 4 | We should be , we we 're only here for a little while cos I 'm going to spend some time with the girls cos I ai n't see their |
| 5 | Emerson and Jackie swopped positions at Brands Hatch , with both of them missing gears at critical points and having to drive some time in oil thrown up by Ickx 's Ferrari . |
| 6 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 7 | ‘ By Jove , we 'll have to put some time in then ! ’ |
| 8 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 9 | If a local authority behaved as the Government have over the sale of public assets , its members would be disqualified and taken before the district auditor and might have to spend some time in gaol — and quite right , too . |
| 10 | Do you intend to stay some time in England ? ’ |
| 11 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You 'll want to have some time on your own with him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do you want to spend some time on those ECG tracings this afternoon , George ? |
| 15 | Jean-Claude had warned me that Otto would want to spend some time at the gastronomic festival being held in Romorantin . |
| 16 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 17 | had to put some time for |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Coleridge was under contract to the Morning Post , and had to spend some time in London ; but in October 1799 he walked in the Lake District with William and John Wordsworth , and after a certain period of indecision arrived at Greta Hall , Keswick , with his wife and family in August 1800 . |
| 20 | She had to meet Rainald first , she had to gain some time for Edmund , she had to — |
| 21 | In the rest of the country we can not be sure of the date , although the evidence begins to suggest some time in the late Saxon period , the centuries before the Norman Conquest . |
| 22 | erm , er and I 'm have to take some time over this , so I think erm in the circumstances the better thing to do would be to adjourn this case till Monday morning and hope that Mr can so arrange his affairs to address me at half past ten on that day , er with Mr and with erm , whatever rights he has to erm deal with matters of this , come up a fresh in reply and to finish off , I 'm gon na leave it like that , a very much , and as I say as far , as far as tomorrow 's concerned that 's er not a difficulty with erm , either Mr informs me which is unlikely or I can , at least get a , make a start , er on the other aspects of the judgement , alright then half past ten on Monday morning |
| 23 | Finally we need to spend some time considering the role of decentralised administration in the public sector . |
| 24 | ‘ Then it is possible that he will be planning to spend some time in Tbilisi . |
| 25 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
| 26 | " You have to spend some time on the practice tee , and you have to take a different approach every day . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | They would be let to people who , for one reason or another , wanted to spend some time in the country away from the pressures of the modern world and are prepared to live very simply . |