Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] for [adj] 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 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 3 | She had n't heard from her for some time . |
| 4 | And erm he 's hired from me for some time now |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time . |