Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
| 2 | On the very day of the dinner Charlotte Poole was writing in her journal : ‘ We are shocked to hear that Mr. Thelwall has spent some time at Stowey this week with Mr. Coleridge , and consequently with Tom Poole . |
| 3 | Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning |
| 4 | Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there . |
| 5 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 6 | According to purchasing manager Roger DaForno , this excellent relationship has taken some time to build and there 's no doubt that both organizations ' commitment to a process of continuous improvement has helped immensely . |
| 7 | ‘ It has to end some time , Ace . |
| 8 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 9 | Yeah , I think , I I sympathise on what the er , new opposition , because I think , it does take some time to particularly after you 've |
| 10 | okay she 's got some time on reception as relief but the majority of work is n is not that varied is it ? |
| 11 | In the rest of the country we can not be sure of the date , although the evidence begins to suggest some time in the late Saxon period , the centuries before the Norman Conquest . |