Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree it 's hard to distinguish between our footprints but this stain , this wetness , shows someone stood here for some time , their cloak and boots heavy with snow . |
| 2 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 3 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 4 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 5 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 6 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 7 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 10 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 11 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 12 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 13 | He remained there for some time . |