Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barraga ( 1976 ) claims that ‘ In order to stimulate interest in visual development , and in learning to see more things , many children may need to spend some time visually investigating objects in the classroom or in the natural environment to broaden their visual experiences . ’ |
| 2 | I should like to know this time before the horse-boys do . ’ |
| 3 | You should try looking some time , ’ Donna said with gleeful malice . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr. Paris , you should have left more time . |
| 5 | The Executive Committee discussed the case at several further meetings and decided to re-examine it when Black 's solicitor should have had more time to ascertain the prospects of money compensation from the government for the injuries . |
| 6 | Instead of taking a Gadarene rush at this important matter of the reform of local government finance , the Government should have taken more time . |
| 7 | Must have happened some time after Buchanan and his sidekick came here . |
| 8 | I mean did you ever have time for dances , and going to the pictures and that kind of thing , I mean you must have found some time ? |
| 9 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 10 | That 's a win lose , you might 've lost that time but you 're gon na get it back another time . |
| 11 | You 'll want to have some time on your own with him . ’ |
| 12 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
| 13 | If you 're partial to drinking bottled water , the report on Which you might like to read some time . |
| 14 | ‘ By Jove , we 'll have to put some time in then ! ’ |
| 15 | You 'll have to go another time wo n't you ? |
| 16 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 17 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 18 | If a local authority behaved as the Government have over the sale of public assets , its members would be disqualified and taken before the district auditor and might have to spend some time in gaol — and quite right , too . |
| 19 | You might not get chosen this time , you might get chosen another time . |
| 20 | ‘ If you 'd like to come any time … that would be … it would be all right . ’ |
| 21 | Could have gone any time with with nothing through his bloody arteries ! |
| 22 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 23 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Then he could go swimming any time he liked . |
| 25 | I hoped we 'd get to meet some time soon . |
| 26 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 27 | Although responders may be biased towards independent , articulate individuals in employment , unemployed people may have had more time to reply , and this is supported by a higher response rate among women , who had a lower employment rate . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 30 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |