Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] some time " in BNC.

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1 It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off .
2 But you 're , but you 're quite right you , you certainly , you certainly have the right to say look , you know , rather than signing this now er I do need some time to think I mean let's face it there 's a load of s If you turn it over on the back of the credit agree
3 No but I like her and everything but holy shit , I really I do need some time to go to school and like be by myself .
4 On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood .
5 I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem .
6 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 . ’
7 I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson .
8 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 .
9 I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country .
10 It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics .
11 I 've had some time to check this Dream , ’ she said .
12 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 .
13 I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’
14 Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge .
15 I have to spend some time with my kid tomorrow , but I 'll be in and out . ’
16 I have devoted some time to the Aplysia story here , not only because of the significance of Eric Kandel 's achievement in terms of its wealth of experimental data and theoretical model building , but perhaps above all because of the place it has come to occupy , not only in the text-books , making memory research neurophysiologically respectable , but in the framing of the research field .
17 I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained .
18 Finally , the concern with manipulation means that postclassical criminology is correctionalist , as were its classical and positivist predecessors ; that is why I have spent some time , in Chapter 3 , countering anti-correctionalist arguments .
19 I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel .
20 It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries .
21 I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris .
22 ‘ Do you want to spend some time on those ECG tracings this afternoon , George ?
23 An objective is a clear , precise forecast of what you want to achieve some time in the future .
24 Do you intend to stay some time in England ? ’
25 You did leave some time in this afternoon 's schedule for that little detail , did n't you ? ’
26 ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ?
27 But you 've got some time to wake up have n't you ?
28 And you 've spent some time doing this , do n't you , Adam ?
29 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 .
30 She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains .
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