Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a particularly painful spot to be kicked and I spent some time hopping round the byre and cursing in a fervent whisper . |
| 2 | That worried us as there were several great skuas working the sky above the bog , and we spent some time waiting for the goose to return before setting off again . |
| 3 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 4 | Their detour to Fort George crossed what is how the main road from Nairn to Inverness , and they arrived some time in the late morning . |
| 5 | and he said some time ago , he rung up one afternoon |
| 6 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 7 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 8 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 9 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 10 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 11 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 12 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 13 | mhm Well , David Brian , now you 're a doctor and a reverend and your the curate at Christ Church in Abingdon , but you spent some time over there in Saints Mary and John Church . |
| 14 | But we have some time before the treasure is found , and there are some honest men among the crew . |
| 15 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 16 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 17 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 18 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 19 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |