Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enough to buy some time . ’ |
| 2 | No date or venue is yet set , but ( i ) it will obviously take some time to organise properly and publicise/market effectively and ( ii ) the most likely venue is Edinburgh . |
| 3 | A full analysis of the information collected will obviously take some time , but I will be presenting a Report to the RBGE Health and Safety Committee at its next meeting in March . |
| 4 | It will obviously take some time , you know Alex is , must be going through a terrible strain himself and he must be concerned about us er as we are for him . |
| 5 | Finding a special moulding can be a real inspiration for a picture and really boost one 's enthusiasm , so spending some time searching for the perfect frame , or one that is very unusual , can be highly profitable . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I just want some time to myself , ’ she repeated calmly . |
| 9 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 10 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 11 | She desperately needed some time alone to think . |
| 12 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 13 | I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there . |
| 14 | This morning 's episode at the flat had shaken her up quite a bit , and she needed desperately to have some time to herself in quiet surroundings . |
| 15 | He just had some time to spare waiting for Maria Luisa to return and why not fill it with a bit of Ruth-baiting ? |
| 16 | the chance would be substantially reduced if the marriage had already lasted some time and there were children . |
| 17 | Meanwhile on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway , in the Cotswolds , the other preserved 28XX , No.2857 , still has some time to run of its loan period . |
| 18 | But Spittals is going to want to see results in a day or so otherwise we 're off to do some time on that robbery job . ’ |
| 19 | When Nigel came back he usually spent some time checking his pulse rate . |
| 20 | Instead of these days being taken together in the spring when the estimates were published , ‘ supply days ’ were scattered throughout the session so that the Opposition , which is allowed to choose the subjects , could always have some time available should it wish to raise some immediate aspect of government policy . |
| 21 | it can still take some time on occasions to start , presumably to get petrol up into the carburettor . |
| 22 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 23 | Nothing happened at first , but Peccable had warned him the Bowls usually took some time to start from cold . |
| 24 | One student looking still had some time to go before his grant aid ended . |
| 25 | A new assistant wo n't always be a key worker ( see page 51 ) straight away and usually spends some time with two or three units or areas of the house to get to know different ways of doing things and the needs of different residents . |
| 26 | Now , the very word ‘ about ’ clearly warns us that the inscription was probably added some time after the event , but all the available evidence does point toward its veracity . |
| 27 | Days Mill was based on the site of a much older and smaller mill , probably built some time during the 16th or 17th centuries . |
| 28 | In ordinary circumstances the family contemplating spending a considerable amount of money would probably spend some time shopping around getting quotations . |
| 29 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |
| 30 | He probably spent some time at Wittenberg with Luther . |