Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 2 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 4 | Check your records to make sure that your employee was employed by you at some time during that week . |
| 5 | She had n't heard from her for some time . |
| 6 | And erm he 's hired from me for some time now |
| 7 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 8 | We 'll see how much fight is left in you after some time in the dungeon . |
| 9 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |