Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] some time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , what I mean I want some time off to be able to re-write properly . |
| 2 | Wendell 's voice was quiet and matter-of-fact as he said , ‘ I guessed some time ago that you 'd fallen for Harry . ’ |
| 3 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 4 | The other device I saw some time ago was a timing light for diesels , this obtained its triggering pulse from a sensor clipped to no.1 injector pipe . |
| 5 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 6 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 7 | I went out to the theatre and the opera a lot , and when I had some time off , I was usually able to get away somewhere . |
| 8 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 9 | I need some time off — Bill : Yes , I heard you . |
| 10 | Other recent imports which have yet to aspire to UK marks include a pair of Aeronca 11AC Chiefs , NC3458E and N86359 , which arrived some time ago at Compton Abbas and are now undergoing rebuilt for UK registry while similarly the frame of Stinson 108 N97915 is being slowly worked on in the gliding club hangar at Booker . |
| 11 | Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago . |
| 12 | Yeah you mean some time ago ? |
| 13 | Maybe your financial position has changed recently and plans you made some time ago need reviewing . |
| 14 | ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked some time later . |
| 15 | Well first let me say erm in answer to a question you put some time ago , what is it what is in this budget for the people of Oxfordshire , and all you got from both Councillor Waldon and Councillor Barnes was a list of the cuts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yes , what , I 'm sorry , have you got some time on tomorrow ? |
| 18 | Well my Lord as I said as I said at the beginning I think the both Mr and myself considered that it might er assist your Lordship considerably if you have some time now to read er the witness statements and the reports from the expert which are in bundle three and indeed erm . |
| 19 | We spent some time away from each other just to do our own things , but now we 're looking forward to getting back to how things were , lock ourselves away and work . |
| 20 | The process of reform upon which we embarked some time ago runs against some ingrained attitudes in public sector management , but they are beginning to change . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought perhaps things would be better if we had some time away from each other , so I agreed , even though it meant her taking time off from school before the end of term . |
| 22 | Oh no I we had some time off did n't we ? |
| 23 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 24 | I think you wanted them to have some time together but … but perhaps not most of the night , ’ she finished on a whisper . |
| 25 | He spent some time afterwards making a special metal umbrella . |
| 26 | He spent some time actually living as a boarder in houses in the areas that he was studying , and making detailed studies of particular families . |
| 27 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 28 | He has been known to buy entire collections that please him , as he did some time ago with the modern Italian co-operative Memphis , or more recently with the furniture designer André Dubreuil . |
| 29 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 30 | and he said some time ago , he rung up one afternoon |