Example sentences of "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 On the very day of the dinner Charlotte Poole was writing in her journal : ‘ We are shocked to hear that Mr. Thelwall has spent some time at Stowey this week with Mr. Coleridge , and consequently with Tom Poole .
3 Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning
4 Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there .
5 London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it .
6 According to purchasing manager Roger DaForno , this excellent relationship has taken some time to build and there 's no doubt that both organizations ' commitment to a process of continuous improvement has helped immensely .
7 ‘ It has to end some time , Ace .
8 Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago .
9 Emerson and Jackie swopped positions at Brands Hatch , with both of them missing gears at critical points and having to drive some time in oil thrown up by Ickx 's Ferrari .
10 They might have to wait some time … .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 .
13 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 .
14 Many others , however , will have retired some time ago , and will not have sufficient resources .
15 ‘ By Jove , we 'll have to put some time in then ! ’
16 ‘ Well I reckon I shall have to start some time , ’ Yanto grinned , as he trotted up alongside him .
17 Having spent some time as a ‘ little kid ’ at the front of the terrace , and having learned through close observation the most rudimentary rules of conduct appropriate to being a Rowdy , the young fan simply shifts his location to the back of the End and to the fringes of the Rowdies group .
18 Having spent some time delving into the subject , I can report that pen computers are still mostly useless because of the lack of proper pen software .
19 Having spent some time loading and editing complicated vector graphics files in CorelDRAW I can vouch for the accuracy of this claim .
20 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 ?
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company .
24 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 .
25 Though they will travel well prepared , the Lancashire club have no idea as to the strength of opposition they will meet , Harlequins having indicated some time ago that a number of their senior players may have other commitments during the Easter break .
26 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 ,
27 Must have happened some time after Buchanan and his sidekick came here .
28 ‘ 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 .
29 ‘ 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 .
30 Following graduation , Mujadid returned home to Karachi at the end of October , having taken some time out to visit Spain and Italy for a well earned holiday .
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