Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] 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 noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 3 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had some time to check this Dream , ’ she said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 10 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 11 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 17 | But you 've got some time to wake up have n't you ? |
| 18 | And you 've spent some time doing this , do n't you , Adam ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 21 | She had to meet Rainald first , she had to gain some time for Edmund , she had to — |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 24 | ‘ After all , ’ he went on , turning the full force of his piercing gaze on her , ‘ you have to talk some time . ’ |
| 25 | " You have to spend some time on the practice tee , and you have to take a different approach every day . |
| 26 | okay she 's got some time on reception as relief but the majority of work is n is not that varied is it ? |
| 27 | Erm , I have brought some price lists here , and I think we 've got some time , Sheila , what time am I finishing ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |