Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby spent some time smoothing the ruffled sensibilities of Corbett Farraday ( ‘ I mean , after all , when you n–y to give them a bit of fun … ‘ ) , then he went to check the changing huts , which Bill Muggeridge usually forgot to lock after his afternoon tearing round blowing whistles at the boys . |
| 2 | This desire , Hilton says , is the " love of Iesu " which is the ground of salvation whether or not man experiences the joy and love in the kind of illuminated understanding which is the special gift of the contemplative : Hilton spends some time at this stage of the book finding imaginative ways of pointing to the goal of contemplative discipline — the finding of Jesus who is lost in man 's soul as a treasure buried in a field ( c.49 ) but who also is a joy beyond all that desiring can encompass ( c.46 ) . |
| 3 | It looks as though Richard had some time ago given up his insistence that Angoulême should be inherited by Vulgrin 's daughter Matilda . |
| 4 | Mercifully , by the third day Nigel got some time on his own and was able to go out and buy a meal . |
| 5 | In nineteen seventy four , Reg spent some time at the National Circus School in Paris , where he learnt , amongst other things , that the life of a circus performer was not for him . |
| 6 | Pammy Jane spent some time with her parents after the split before moving to the Highgrove estate near Tetbury , Glos . |
| 7 | ‘ So young Boden spent some time alone in there , alive and active . |
| 8 | ’ … into Taunton yesterday , ’ he became conscious of Tessa saying some time later , ‘ to get some special new antibiotic for Jester . |
| 9 | Behind the external appearance of harshness and reserve lay sensitivity , suffering , even humour ; Wordsworth took some time to get to know , but those who dared to make the attempt were often agreeably surprised . |
| 10 | Heath went some time in March , I think . |
| 11 | Leslie , the former All Black captain , took over the Wellington team some time after Kirton departed that job . |
| 12 | Between the date of Meehan 's conviction and his appeal a month later , Nicky told me , he had an astonishing piece of luck in that there had come into his possession a tape-recording of an interview with Griffiths taken some time previously for a programme the BBC had made at Gartree prison . |
| 13 | To use such language under Cromwell 's government was to court persecution , and Taylor spent some time in the Tower of London as a result . |
| 14 | Post-war Victor spent some time with Aviation Traders before moving to his current employment . |
| 15 | After leaving 617 , J. spent some time with the Canadians in 6 Group , and then on to 4 Group at Marston Moor , before the war ended . |
| 16 | doing things like that but I I I I believe quite strongly what Angela 's saying er , if you came to me and presented something ba ba , a total er , conviction that it might be in a sense damaging er the er the the the concept people have of your subject , or might have I would listen very carefully to that , and I also ta , I remember Gordon saying some time ago and whilst Gordon drove me crackers he talked about the government saying you 've got ta do this , you 've go and he said there are things that we must believe in as educationalists ourselves , and professionalists |
| 17 | The Wessex Group is hoping to start again this year and there will be another lunch and garden party at Langton Matravers some time during the summer . |
| 18 | Vitor enquired some time later as they turned on to an expressway . |
| 19 | Elena Rozhukaite arrived in Cleveland on Sunday to spend some time with Mr and Mrs Chris Challenger of Garbutt 's Lane , Hutton Rudby , while undergoing plastic surgery . |
| 20 | He was a London model and , since she is in Paris to spend some time with her girlfriend , she was n't into the idea . |
| 21 | Fisher spent some time here and it is believed he entertained Erasmus , his great friend , at the Palace . |
| 22 | Back in the house in Regent 's Park Road , Oscar took some time to study the newspaper reports of Chant 's death before retiring to his treasure house on the third floor with both his new artifacts and a good deal to think about . |
| 23 | Even Tony was anxious for Joe to spend some time with him and Helen , and to show off his new car . |
| 24 | Although he seems to have the hang of it pretty well , a Harvard physicist named Thomas McMahon spent some time relearning this process on a computer . |
| 25 | Mansell spent some time on stage with his former boss Frank Williams , whose Canon-Williams team had won the Constructors ' Championship . |
| 26 | ‘ I met Rainald to gain some time , not because of Edmund . |
| 27 | Wait until you and Bill have some time to yourselves . |
| 28 | Parsons spent some time in England , too . |
| 29 | Niall spent some time with him , making him more comfortable and generally trying to reassure him . ’ |
| 30 | IBM Corp 's James Cannavino took some time out to explain exactly what Louis Gerstner is doing with regard to the company 's restructuring — Gerstner , he says , ‘ has stopped any organisation in IBM that was creating a subsidiary just for accounting reasons ’ — instead , he decided it was better to change the accounting practices — ‘ which is great ’ declares Cannavino , ‘ because it means that the accountants are staying up as late as we do now ’ . |