Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning |
| 2 | Fortunately the rain had ceased some time during the night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |
| 6 | Her feeling of insecurity had started some time before her father 's death with a suspicion , soon amounting to certainty , that something was going on behind her back . |
| 7 | He added that the exports had ceased some time previously . |
| 8 | The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Though they will travel well prepared , the Lancashire club have no idea as to the strength of opposition they will meet , Harlequins having indicated some time ago that a number of their senior players may have other commitments during the Easter break . |
| 11 | This time last week it had been , last Saturday , when she and Miguel had spent some time together and she was as happy as she had ever been in her life — until that moment when she discovered just how much of a fool he had made of her … |