Example sentences of "have [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 31 | He would have to stop some time , and then she would be able to escape . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | In Witham the break-ins are thought to have happened some time early on Saturday . |
| 35 | ‘ You 're going to have to stop some time , ’ Jessamy said furiously . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 38 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | ‘ Look , it had to come some time , you know . |
| 43 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 44 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 45 | The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash . |
| 46 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |
| 47 | His first wife , Molly 's mother , had died some time before , and the girl kept the cottage clean and sweet until marriage to Ben Curdle removed her . |
| 48 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
| 49 | Erm , I have brought some price lists here , and I think we 've got some time , Sheila , what time am I finishing ? |
| 50 | But you 've got some time to wake up have n't you ? |
| 51 | ‘ I 've had some time to check this Dream , ’ she said . |
| 52 | had to put some time for |
| 53 | He had known some time before . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 58 | Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families . |
| 59 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 60 | 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 . |