Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 4 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Not for some time but we are not worried , miss , it 's not unusual for the gentry , if you will excuse me saying so , to keep folks waiting for payment . ’ |
| 7 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 8 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 9 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 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 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |