Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 2 | Sesostris did not speak for some time . |
| 3 | However , 1792 did not establish for all time antislavery as a movement of popular mobilisation demonstrated in the use of general public meetings . |
| 4 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 5 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 6 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 7 | When the Bank of Scotland had threatened to imprison his Constable partner Robert Cadell in Calton Hill Gaol , Cadell took refuge in the debtors ' sanctuary at Holyrood — where Thomas de Quincey had also stayed for some time . |
| 8 | Rhoda he had also known for some time . |
| 9 | Len had n't spoken for some time . |
| 10 | You had n't spoken for some time . |