Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barraga ( 1976 ) claims that ‘ In order to stimulate interest in visual development , and in learning to see more things , many children may need to spend some time visually investigating objects in the classroom or in the natural environment to broaden their visual experiences . ’ |
| 2 | You should try looking some time , ’ Donna said with gleeful malice . |
| 3 | Must have happened some time after Buchanan and his sidekick came here . |
| 4 | I mean did you ever have time for dances , and going to the pictures and that kind of thing , I mean you must have found some time ? |
| 5 | You 'll want to have some time on your own with him . ’ |
| 6 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
| 7 | If you 're partial to drinking bottled water , the report on Which you might like to read some time . |
| 8 | ‘ By Jove , we 'll have to put some time in then ! ’ |
| 9 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 10 | If a local authority behaved as the Government have over the sale of public assets , its members would be disqualified and taken before the district auditor and might have to spend some time in gaol — and quite right , too . |
| 11 | I hoped we 'd get to meet some time soon . |
| 12 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 16 | Jean-Claude had warned me that Otto would want to spend some time at the gastronomic festival being held in Romorantin . |
| 17 | " I would like to ride some time — perhaps one evening when I 've finished work . |
| 18 | He would have to stop some time , and then she would be able to escape . |
| 19 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 20 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
| 21 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |
| 22 | ‘ Well I reckon I shall have to start some time , ’ Yanto grinned , as he trotted up alongside him . |
| 23 | Many applicants will have a firm idea of what they want to study at university , but others will want to take some time to consider various possibilities before they apply . |
| 24 | Many others , however , will have retired some time ago , and will not have sufficient resources . |
| 25 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 26 | I know Howard Wilkinson was disappointed at the delivery in the first leg and , if I know him , Leeds will have spent some time since working to make sure those balls count next time . |