Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
| 2 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 3 | He had taken some time off yesterday morning to take Azor , and incidentally her , for a long walk . |
| 4 | He had known some time before . |
| 5 | It was an invitation from Rupert Stonebird to the dinner party he had mentioned some time ago . |
| 6 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 7 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 8 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 9 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 10 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 11 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |
| 12 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |