Example sentences of "[verb] some time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 3 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Just to pass some time cos I 'm bored I 'd thought I 'd list a team of crap Leeds players I 've had the misfortune to see over the years . |
| 6 | Just to pass some time cos I 'm bored I 'd thought I 'd list a team of crap Leeds players I 've had the misfortune to see over the years . |
| 7 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 8 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 9 | With static systems , recognition is performed some time after the handwriting has been produced . |
| 10 | Leslie , the former All Black captain , took over the Wellington team some time after Kirton departed that job . |
| 11 | THE hype began some time before we met . |
| 12 | It actually takes some time before I get to the stage of asking for his name , the date or details of the place where he lives . |
| 13 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 14 | As you might imagine , this takes some time and is also completely mental . |
| 15 | Constituency work takes some time and leads to a multiplicity of minor preoccupations but it by no means occupies the entire day . |
| 16 | In one good example in June 1988 , a company was burgled some time after an employee was sacked . |
| 17 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 18 | It may take some time before matters settle down again and action proceeds quasi-automatically according to revised schemas . |
| 19 | It will inevitably take some time before the full benefits of our strategy are realised and , whilst we expect our production and cash flow to remain strong and rise over the next few years , profitability in the short term is likely to remain depressed , even with contributions from disposals . |
| 20 | Unemployment traditionally lags other economic indicators in a recovery and it will take some time before firms feel sure enough of the trend to consider expanding workforces again . |
| 21 | This may take some time but patience will be rewarded far more than a loss of temper . |
| 22 | If so , this may take some time and finance to organise , and planning permission may have to be obtained from the local authority . |
| 23 | Even if in the long run ostlers and grooms become garage mechanics and assembly-line workers , this may take some time and the social dislocations could be very severe . |
| 24 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
| 25 | It took some time before Willie allowed himself to relax in the water . |
| 26 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 27 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |
| 28 | All this took some time and he was not a particularly military figure at the end of it . |
| 29 | He took some time because he jacked up the chair on books to make good the missing leg , rather than have an unsuspecting colleague collapse . |
| 30 | We all have to die some time and would like to go doing what we enjoy most . |