Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got to have some time alone . |
| 2 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
| 3 | Another and equally disconcerting presence had materialized there — one which she had attempted to diminish some time ago and send packing from her thoughts . |
| 4 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 5 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , she was killed the night before last ; but she could have gone missing some time before that . ’ |