Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 2 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 3 | An aggressive mob of youngsters had been closely dogging us for some time and , emboldened by our apparent failure to notice them or to quicken our pace , had begun throwing stones . |
| 4 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 5 | Also , blotting paper is fairly costly to buy so it is much more economical to use it for pressing time and time again . |
| 6 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 7 | Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition . |
| 8 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 9 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |