Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [det] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
| 2 | Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 5 | Funny that , because you seem to spend enough time here . |
| 6 | Firstly , that I seem to spend more time out of the house than in it , and then more time away from home than at home , and finally but just as significantly , more time just watching the world go by then dashing around with it . |
| 7 | Wear a sunblock cream if you think you may be going to spend any time outdoors and wear clothes that cover sensitive areas . |
| 8 | Unfortunately that is not going to happen any time soon . |
| 9 | If it has n't happened already , it 's going to happen any time now , and when it does , software developers could get the impetus they need to start shifting products capable of useful work . |
| 10 | So what we 've got to spend more time on . |
| 11 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
| 12 | They began to spend less time together . |
| 13 | Another and equally disconcerting presence had materialized there — one which she had attempted to diminish some time ago and send packing from her thoughts . |
| 14 | Many others , however , will have retired some time ago , and will not have sufficient resources . |
| 15 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 16 | Though they will travel well prepared , the Lancashire club have no idea as to the strength of opposition they will meet , Harlequins having indicated some time ago that a number of their senior players may have other commitments during the Easter break . |
| 17 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Following graduation , Mujadid returned home to Karachi at the end of October , having taken some time out to visit Spain and Italy for a well earned holiday . |
| 21 | He remembered coming awake some time earlier , when the hall door had slammed and high heels had clicked down the steps , passing beneath his window . |
| 22 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 23 | I hoped we 'd get to meet some time soon . |
| 24 | I would have loved to have spent more time out there where the action is , but it just was n't practical . |
| 25 | In Witham the break-ins are thought to have happened some time early on Saturday . |
| 26 | ‘ We do get some time off ! ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , the pensione was not particularly comfortable and she preferred to spend more time away from it than in it . |
| 29 | We ca n't seem to spend any time together without getting involved in all the old arguments again . ’ |
| 30 | Because the home is a workplace for women , they tend to spend more time there than men or children . |