Example sentences of "have [verb] some time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the very day of the dinner Charlotte Poole was writing in her journal : ‘ We are shocked to hear that Mr. Thelwall has spent some time at Stowey this week with Mr. Coleridge , and consequently with Tom Poole . |
| 2 | Emerson and Jackie swopped positions at Brands Hatch , with both of them missing gears at critical points and having to drive some time in oil thrown up by Ickx 's Ferrari . |
| 3 | ‘ By Jove , we 'll have to put some time in then ! ’ |
| 4 | Having spent some time as a ‘ little kid ’ at the front of the terrace , and having learned through close observation the most rudimentary rules of conduct appropriate to being a Rowdy , the young fan simply shifts his location to the back of the End and to the fringes of the Rowdies group . |
| 5 | I know Howard Wilkinson was disappointed at the delivery in the first leg and , if I know him , Leeds will have spent some time since working to make sure those balls count next time . |
| 6 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 7 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |
| 8 | Must have happened some time after Buchanan and his sidekick came here . |
| 9 | If a local authority behaved as the Government have over the sale of public assets , its members would be disqualified and taken before the district auditor and might have to spend some time in gaol — and quite right , too . |
| 10 | I hope I will , that we will have support in it on this issue and I do n't want to take up all the time but it is something that members do approach me in , and and others on the members ' services sub and I hope we have time Chairman to er give this report some consideration and let's say it 's a v , it 's a very important if you Chairman want any additionals to the recommendations , or if you say we 're going too far in the recommendations because those recommendations you have down in front of you will be forwarded on and you 're officers and your your your policies and resources they 've given some time on on this report and therefore on the bottom of page thirty one the motion to be moved says that the comments of the policy and resources committee and the recommendations of the joint working party and the internal management of the local authorities be noted for submission to the Association of County Councils as appropriate . |
| 11 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 12 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |
| 13 | had to put some time for |
| 14 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 15 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |
| 16 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 17 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 18 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 19 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 20 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 21 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 22 | Owen loved the bustle of the bazaars , of the whole native city , in fact ; but after you had spent some time in them , especially when it was as hot as this , you felt an overwhelming need for space and air , and after forcing their way through the blocked thoroughfares of the Tentmakers ' Bazaar they were glad to emerge into the more open streets . |
| 23 | The cabbie , who drove us from the airport to our hotel , had spent some time in Oxford and London . |
| 24 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |
| 25 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 27 | Fortunately the rain had ceased some time during the night . |
| 28 | Her feeling of insecurity had started some time before her father 's death with a suspicion , soon amounting to certainty , that something was going on behind her back . |
| 29 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
| 30 | Coleridge was under contract to the Morning Post , and had to spend some time in London ; but in October 1799 he walked in the Lake District with William and John Wordsworth , and after a certain period of indecision arrived at Greta Hall , Keswick , with his wife and family in August 1800 . |