Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] some time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report shows that the committee devoted some time to analysing a helpful report from the Health Education Authority , ’ Beating the Ban ’ , which was published in 1990 . |
| 2 | Neighbours say the gunman spent some time outside the house . |
| 3 | Thus , where a covenant in a lease provided for the payment of rent in advance , the tenant was not entitled to prove an antecedent oral agreement under which he was to pay by way of bill of exchange maturing some time after tender ( Henderson v Arthur [ 1907 ] 1 KB 10 ) . |
| 4 | Edgar wicket keeper , innkeeper and redoubtable raconteur confided some time after midnight that to help run in his pain-free new hip joint he 'd taken an early morning paper round in Aycliffe village . |
| 5 | As the mother of two sons myself , I now find my childhood reaction extreme , and am led to suspect that my separation anxiety originated some time before the birth of my sister . |
| 6 | At the end of the session spend some time in free discussion about the method . |
| 7 | In between Dance Energy series , he 's been making demo tapes , with the aim of securing a record deal some time in the future . |
| 8 | For some people this process begins some time before the person they grieve for has died . |
| 9 | Mr President Portsmouth is a thriving maritime city with much to be proud of we have many supreme attractions Victory Mary Rose and Warrior amongst others which I hope you will have a chance to visit some time during your stay here in Portsmouth . |
| 10 | The department has about 70 families and individuals acting as carers to give people chance to develop new interests and greater self-confidence and offering their families a chance to have some time to themselves . |
| 11 | So the mischief occurred some time between then and five-fifteen . ’ |
| 12 | The attack happened some time between 10.50 p.m. and 11.15 p.m. inside the entrance of the Crown Hotel in Alton High Street , say police . |
| 13 | In the fifth century there were only two kings of Cyrene before the monarchy fell some time before c.450 , Battos IV ‘ The Fair ’ and Arkesilas IV ; in about the middle of the century , Cyrene freed itself from the never very oppressive control of Persia , perhaps following the lead of the Egyptian revolt . |
| 14 | Emmerdale Farm , Crown Court and General Hospital arrived some time in the middle of the afternoon — in those days , we made our own crap daytime drama . |
| 15 | The SCOTVEC exercise gave me an ideal and welcome opportunity to spend some time on advanced course provision , to see how others saw it and , finally , to find out how other colleges approached it . |
| 16 | A core programme , coupled with an opportunity to spend some time in the patient area of their choice , is most likely to meet the needs of the individual . |
| 17 | from 's Group Information Services department at Ipswich took the opportunity to spend some time in the USA 18 months ago , when he went to in Kansas to set up an Information Technology department . |
| 18 | What is arguably the most significant event to affect the British landscape occurred some time before 4000 BC . |
| 19 | Mrs Ivory , who is Thai , married Chatchai 's father , Michael Ivory , in 1987 , and the couple spent some time in Thailand before returning to Scotland in March . |
| 20 | When Mrs Reynolds came to visit her husband , the staff nurse spent some time with them both explaining what they should expect immediately after the operation and she arranged for Mrs Reynolds to telephone the ward the following afternoon . |
| 21 | Obviously I think the er the final time comes some time in April otherwise I think there would be , and I use the term again too much inconvenience , massive inconvenience for those fighting the election here er . |