Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for some time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 2 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 3 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 4 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 5 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 6 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 7 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 8 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 9 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 10 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 11 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 12 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |