Example sentences of "he have [verb] 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	I said , I 'm afraid erm , you know , that so he , he had to take some time , er , we ha we took some time to find the book of the words which
3	He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her .
4	He had taken some time off yesterday morning to take Azor , and incidentally her , for a long walk .
5	He had known some time before .
6	It was an invitation from Rupert Stonebird to the dinner party he had mentioned some time ago .
7	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 .
8	‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner .
9	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 .
10	Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane .
11	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 .
12	One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’
13	He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape .

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