Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |
| 2 | Judging the competition has taken quite some time and was no easy matter . |
| 3 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 4 | The marriage must have broken up some time in 1980 . |
| 5 | ‘ Danker , ’ said the man in battle-dress , and to me : ‘ Hullo , old boy ’ as if it was inevitable that I should have come there some time or other , and went on throwing the ball about . |
| 6 | If he had been at the Sex of One … party , he must have driven down some time between the small hours-of the Sunday morning and when he rang Keith Battrick-Jones on the Monday morning . |
| 7 | He is believed to have died there some time between A.D. 64 and 67 . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've made up some time , ’ he informed her . |
| 9 | Normally , he said , it was not difficult to revive babies who suffered collapses , but it had taken quite some time to get signs of life from Liam . |
| 10 | The great temptation , particularly after a good round , is to fly over the last fence and gallop through the finish invariably trying to make up some time over an easy fence . |
| 11 | I have spent quite some time considering the best format for the book and , after much deliberation , have decided to set out in bold type the precedents clause by clause interspersed with my own comments , followed , once again in bold type , by my suggested amendments to the particular parts of the precedents , where those amendments are not readily identifiable from my comments in the text . |
| 12 | Steven Marcus has suggested that : ‘ Pornography , in the sense that we understand it today , is a historical phenomenon ; it begins to exist significantly some time during the middle of the eighteenth century , and flourishes steadily — though with periodic fluctuations in intensity — throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . ’ |