Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] some time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 3 | Many others , however , will have retired some time ago , and will not have sufficient resources . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 7 | Following graduation , Mujadid returned home to Karachi at the end of October , having taken some time out to visit Spain and Italy for a well earned holiday . |
| 8 | In Witham the break-ins are thought to have happened some time early on Saturday . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had known some time before . |
| 16 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 19 | He added that the exports had ceased some time previously . |
| 20 | I have n't really had a vacation , this is the first time I 've taken some time off and I barely got here ; just because of the pace of the world , especially last year . |
| 21 | He had taken some time off yesterday morning to take Azor , and incidentally her , for a long walk . |
| 22 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 23 | IN 1963 ABC TV published the findings of an experiment they had conducted some time earlier into the perception thresholds of children watching Television . |
| 24 | It was an invitation from Rupert Stonebird to the dinner party he had mentioned some time ago . |