Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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1 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
2 | But you 're , but you 're quite right you , you certainly , you certainly have the right to say look , you know , rather than signing this now er I do need some time to think I mean let's face it there 's a load of s If you turn it over on the back of the credit agree |
3 | No but I like her and everything but holy shit , I really I do need some time to go to school and like be by myself . |
4 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
5 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
6 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
7 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
8 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
9 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ I 've had some time to check this Dream , ’ she said . |
12 | I have n't really had a vacation , this is the first time I 've taken some time off and I barely got here ; just because of the pace of the world , especially last year . |
13 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
14 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
15 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
16 | I have devoted some time to the Aplysia story here , not only because of the significance of Eric Kandel 's achievement in terms of its wealth of experimental data and theoretical model building , but perhaps above all because of the place it has come to occupy , not only in the text-books , making memory research neurophysiologically respectable , but in the framing of the research field . |
17 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ 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 . |
22 | ‘ Do you want to spend some time on those ECG tracings this afternoon , George ? |
23 | An objective is a clear , precise forecast of what you want to achieve some time in the future . |
24 | Do you intend to stay some time in England ? ’ |
25 | You did leave some time in this afternoon 's schedule for that little detail , did n't you ? ’ |
26 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
27 | But you 've got some time to wake up have n't you ? |
28 | And you 've spent some time doing this , do n't you , Adam ? |
29 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |
30 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |