Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] some time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 2 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 9 | IN 1963 ABC TV published the findings of an experiment they had conducted some time earlier into the perception thresholds of children watching Television . |
| 10 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 11 | He had taken some time off yesterday morning to take Azor , and incidentally her , for a long walk . |
| 12 | He had known some time before . |
| 13 | It was an invitation from Rupert Stonebird to the dinner party he had mentioned some time ago . |
| 14 | 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 . |