Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] some time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 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 noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 6 | The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash . |
| 7 | His first wife , Molly 's mother , had died some time before , and the girl kept the cottage clean and sweet until marriage to Ben Curdle removed her . |
| 8 | He had known some time before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This time last week it had been , last Saturday , when she and Miguel had spent some time together and she was as happy as she had ever been in her life — until that moment when she discovered just how much of a fool he had made of her … |
| 11 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 12 | He added that the exports had ceased some time previously . |
| 13 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 14 | IN 1963 ABC TV published the findings of an experiment they had conducted some time earlier into the perception thresholds of children watching Television . |
| 15 | It was an invitation from Rupert Stonebird to the dinner party he had mentioned some time ago . |
| 16 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |