Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 9 | She had to meet Rainald first , she had to gain some time for Edmund , she had to — |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 15 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 16 | IN 1963 ABC TV published the findings of an experiment they had conducted some time earlier into the perception thresholds of children watching Television . |
| 17 | It had to happen some time . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , it had to come some time , you know . |
| 19 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
| 20 | I said , I 'm afraid erm , you know , that so he , he had to take some time , er , we ha we took some time to find the book of the words which |
| 21 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 22 | He had taken some time off yesterday morning to take Azor , and incidentally her , for a long walk . |
| 23 | He had known some time before . |
| 24 | It was an invitation from Rupert Stonebird to the dinner party he had mentioned some time ago . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 29 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 30 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |