Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] some time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The letter , ‘ I ca n't forgo principles ’ , was reportedly published at the behest of Ligachev and for some time it was believed that Andreeva was the pseudonym of a conservative member of the leadership .
2 She was tackling this man on his own terms and at some time she would be doing it head-on .
3 After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague .
4 They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old .
5 Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need .
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