Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had an iron undershot wheel but ceased operating some time in the 1920s . |
| 2 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 3 | It grieves me to say that the committee seemed to spend some time trying to denigrate the authority 's findings and to vindicate the tobacco industry . |
| 4 | Ice expected to last some time , but look for a few skimmers and perch at Newport on pole and maggot . |
| 5 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 6 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 7 | Nevertheless we accept that a new period in world communications did begin some time in the 1970S — involving technology , markets and policies . |
| 8 | However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth . |
| 9 | But it did take some time . |
| 10 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 11 | You did leave some time in this afternoon 's schedule for that little detail , did n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 13 | He also planned to spend some time studying work in a flour-mill . |
| 14 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 15 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Look , it had to come some time , you know . |
| 20 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash . |
| 23 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | had to put some time for |
| 26 | He had known some time before . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |