Example sentences of "some time [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The G-BUM series appears to have been passed over — with G-BUMF and G-BUMP allotted some time ago we can not believe the CAA has turned prudish in its old age … !
2 And if you recall some time ago we wrote and said we would like the buses that go down Station Lane Edingley to come through our village .
3 Some time ago he had ordered that the front garden be flagged over , and now the weeds were pushing up between the paving slabs and the stones themselves had sunk in the ground at one end .
4 ‘ Following the elections there has been less high profile security presence in the area , ’ he said , adding that some time ago he asked for extra security measures for the town .
5 ‘ I told you some time ago I 'd seen wor young 'un with a piece .
6 Some time ago I received a frantic telephone call from Carol , who had undergone successful hypnotic treatment about two years earlier .
7 Some time ago I achieved a longstanding ambition — a lead of Slape Direct on Llanberis 's Clogwyn y Grochan .
8 Some time ago I turned up at Broadcasting House to meet someone for lunch .
9 Some time ago I commented in an article that too many people sought their main interests outside their work .
10 Some time ago I read an article on Dante , Petrarch , Boccaccio and Botticelli .
11 In nineteen eighty three from nineteen fifty three after thirty years of making cheese , they changed his job , I think many of you are ahead of me already , he said I was given a job change and I began working in landscaping , how nice while being interviewed some time ago I was asked what I thought about being giving a job change after thirty years of making cheese and he said well it did n't bother me , I noted , frankly because I did n't like making cheese anyway
12 Although the London conference was arranged some time ago it became an opportunity for the princess to deliver her pledge in a speech re-written in the past day or two .
13 As it stands and we must not forget that UNESCO tried something similar some time ago it would appear that purely political motives are making trade impossible .
14 Some time ago it was suggested that three east coast sites , at Brough-on-Humber , Caister-by-Yarmouth and Rochester , possessed late second or early third-century fortifications which were different from the general run of urban defences of this date .
15 When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again .
16 No matter , it was a wild weekend , and some time soon I 'll return to the scene of the crime and see if I can make the princely pond a home fit for a frog .
17 ‘ And some time soon you will have to return to England . ’
18 ‘ … and some time today I 'll have to go into the village .
19 Some time later they might add about $1 billion to Zeneca 's annual sales .
20 Some time later they heard that Tepilit had been hanged .
21 This time we really thought we had lost her , but some time later we saw her crawl underneath my Portakabin .
22 Some time later we were alerted by a smell of burning , and rushed out to find the chimney on fire .
23 Some time later I got an amp as well It was as big a piece of junk as the bass — a Fenton Weill Mk II with a Goodman speaker , which is nothing but a cheap copy of the Ampeg Portaflex B15N .
24 Some time later I was in this little Jewish club when Leslie came in with his minder .
25 Some time later I got up to go to the loo .
26 Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé .
27 My distress when this bombshell was dropped must have left its mark , for some time later I received a letter enclosing a card signed by a number of Australian cricketers , including Bradman , at a private dinner party .
28 Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square .
29 Some time later I found myself next to him at a dining-club .
30 Whatever he heard me say , some time later I was led out of the doors and taken to rooms they said were mine , as if they were pleased about it .
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