Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 31 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 32 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 33 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 34 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 35 | Another and equally disconcerting presence had materialized there — one which she had attempted to diminish some time ago and send packing from her thoughts . |
| 36 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 37 | You should try looking some time , ’ Donna said with gleeful malice . |
| 38 | Erm well I 'm suppose to hear some time this afternoon er when I get back now |
| 39 | Many others , however , will have retired some time ago , and will not have sufficient resources . |
| 40 | ‘ By Jove , we 'll have to put some time in then ! ’ |
| 41 | ‘ Well I reckon I shall have to start some time , ’ Yanto grinned , as he trotted up alongside him . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Having spent some time delving into the subject , I can report that pen computers are still mostly useless because of the lack of proper pen software . |
| 44 | Having spent some time loading and editing complicated vector graphics files in CorelDRAW I can vouch for the accuracy of this claim . |
| 45 | I mean did you ever have time for dances , and going to the pictures and that kind of thing , I mean you must have found some time ? |
| 46 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 , |
| 52 | Must have happened some time after Buchanan and his sidekick came here . |
| 53 | ‘ 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 . |
| 54 | ‘ 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | He would have to stop some time , and then she would be able to escape . |
| 57 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 58 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |