Example sentences of "spent some time " in BNC.

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1 For example , the Audit Commission ( an arm of the treasury ) spent some time in 1987/8 with myself and others in a police research department assessing an OSU ( Operational Support Unit ) administrative system which they claimed had ‘ revolutionized police decision making ’ and released manpower for patrol equal to £6.358 million .
2 He still has sufficient force , passion and reputation to get his way if he puts his case forcefully enough and yesterday he spent some time in conclave with Carrick , Neil Hartley and coach Doug Padgett .
3 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 .
4 I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him .
5 When Nigel came back he usually spent some time checking his pulse rate .
6 You eventually managed to get a flight to Milan , where you stayed in hiding , and then you spent some time near Lake Como ?
7 Friday I spent some time here , half a day .
8 They spent some time driving around before the woman persuaded the kidnapper to let her take the child into a shop to get some baby food .
9 He spent some time afterwards making a special metal umbrella .
10 Stirling and Tait managed to make it north to the escarpment where they spent some time observing enemy traffic on the coastal road below .
11 Throughout 1969 I spent some time each month visiting schools , and attending yet more meetings in Curzon Street .
12 During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 .
13 He spent some time in Rome , later Florence and then , in 1923 or 1924 — he was n't quite sure — he ‘ fetched up ’ in Naples .
14 I believe the police spent some time asking him questions but he had obviously not seen you so that was that .
15 The male prison population vastly outnumbers the female ; in 1979 , 143,000 males spent some time in prison , in comparison to 8,000 females .
16 When I first came , I spent some time with Sue , she 's the manager .
17 After leaving 617 , J. spent some time with the Canadians in 6 Group , and then on to 4 Group at Marston Moor , before the war ended .
18 ‘ We spent some time in there when we were kids , did n't we Yant ? ’
19 Although he seems to have the hang of it pretty well , a Harvard physicist named Thomas McMahon spent some time relearning this process on a computer .
20 He spent some time expressing his preference , for tactical reasons , for smaller neutron bombs before developing his argument .
21 He spent some time climbing about and peering in all directions .
22 They spent some time telling him what they thought of him .
23 I then spent some time trying to teach Clive how to breathe !
24 Pammy Jane spent some time with her parents after the split before moving to the Highgrove estate near Tetbury , Glos .
25 Mansell spent some time on stage with his former boss Frank Williams , whose Canon-Williams team had won the Constructors ' Championship .
26 I spent some time with him after he drove back into the pit-lane and he was very categorical about his decision : ‘ It is simply not worth it , ’ he said .
27 When he was up and about , he also spent some time in the kitchen , having become what was then called a ‘ health-food fanatic ’ .
28 During the summer of 1971 , soon after the ‘ discovery ’ , for the second time , of my disability , I spent some time in hospital .
29 He probably spent some time at Wittenberg with Luther .
30 To use such language under Cromwell 's government was to court persecution , and Taylor spent some time in the Tower of London as a result .
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