Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uproar in the kitchen continued for some time while Nanny pressed his face against her coat and added her own voice to the tumult . |
| 2 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 3 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 4 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 5 | Plans for the opera continued for some time : |
| 6 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 7 | However , the silence continued for some time , as though the other rabbits did not care to mention what they thought was wrong . |
| 8 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 9 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |