Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] some time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 5 | I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’ |
| 6 | I have devoted some time to the Aplysia story here , not only because of the significance of Eric Kandel 's achievement in terms of its wealth of experimental data and theoretical model building , but perhaps above all because of the place it has come to occupy , not only in the text-books , making memory research neurophysiologically respectable , but in the framing of the research field . |
| 7 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 9 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |