Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] some time " in BNC.
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1 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
8 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
9 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He remained there for some time . |