Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for some [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 2 | It climbed steeply for some moments and then hung , apparently motionless , like a miniature sun above the sepoy encampment . |
| 3 | So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again . |
| 4 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 5 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 6 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 9 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |