Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q I have layered , shoulder-length permed hair and it has taken me some time to grow it to this length . |
| 2 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 3 | And once again Ric is attempting to go beyond the normal boundaries of cricket-writing : ‘ If I wanted to write a biography which was simply a record of CTB 's achievements I would have finished it some time ago . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 5 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 6 | She recognised the gun as one her ex-lover had bought her some time before as a form of self-protection , the court heard . |
| 7 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 8 | And although there are similarities , too , not least in the prodigality of the invention , the real difference lies in the music : in essence , while Busoni , ten years younger , was on the doorstep of discovering his own language , Sergei Vasilyevich had found his some time back . |
| 9 | For earlier , the grandma , who had left them some time ago , had pulled out a drawer from a deal tallboy , and put a noxious blanket in it , ready for the baby 's birth . |
| 10 | It had left them some time to take stock of their lives . |
| 11 | Miss Ross said her sister had kept a personal protection gun at home previously but had returned it some time ago to the Maze for safekeeping . |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody 's ever happy when they 're on the bench , but it 's given me some time to get my mind right again . |
| 13 | And she 's had it some time now but the whole purpose was to so that she could train this one because the first one now is too old , the second one has and ca n't . |