Example sentences of "some time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 2 | They waved once and I waved back , and for some time I could see their bright jackets in the dappled shade of the afternoon sun . |
| 3 | For some time I had nourished a wish to write a war memoir , and after a while , and with the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the war , the desire became urgent . |
| 4 | Would it be feasible , I asked myself , to fill what for some time I had thought was a serious gap in British military history , namely a socio-military chronicle of the last hundred years of the army 's mounted arm ? |
| 5 | For some time I could not speak . |
| 6 | For quite some time I thought that bunsen was something that the burners burnt . |
| 7 | For some time I was baffled by a sentence in his argument that the theoretical removal of the authority of the author by the critic , Stanley Fish , has no way of dealing with misprints : ‘ His book happens to be full of misprints . |
| 8 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 9 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 10 | " Some time I 've got to break it . |
| 11 | ‘ But apart from the fact that my mother obviously lived here at some time I know nothing at all . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
| 13 | On the basis that er if if you 've seen enough here now Lynda to be persuaded , and I hope we have , persuaded you that you 'd like to come in with us then you will be resigning at some time I guess . |
| 14 | For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help . |
| 15 | By mistake some time I have . |
| 16 | She 'll be round on Friday afternoon or Saturday some time I said we 'd be here from four o'clock on Friday so I 'll take it down to John 's today then it 's away to work I 've got the rubbish in the bins right ? |