Example sentences of "[prep] some time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If yer really want ter know I 've been courtin' a widow for some time an' we 're thinkin' of settlin' down tergether , ’ he replied . |
| 2 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 3 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 4 | ‘ They had known each other for some time before they married , though , had n't they ? ’ ventured Greg . |
| 5 | This polychrome type of design seems to have been invented at Knossos , where it was fashionable for some time before it was adopted generally in the east of Crete . |
| 6 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 7 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 8 | He became very depressed for some time before he could reassess himself , start to use his considerable abilities and begin courting his wife again . |
| 9 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 10 | Indeed , it should be emphasized that Picasso had been dissatisfied with the limitations imposed on pictorial volumes by a scientific or linear system of perspective for some time before he became aware of the fact that Cézanne 's painting suggested a new concept of form and space . |
| 11 | He had been sitting by the fire for some time before he decided to open the letter . |
| 12 | She stumbled on in this manner for some time before I talked her into accepting a chair and a cuppa . |
| 13 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 14 | ‘ Not for some time but we are not worried , miss , it 's not unusual for the gentry , if you will excuse me saying so , to keep folks waiting for payment . ’ |
| 15 | Most of these had been producing un-hinted PostScript fonts for some time but they now all had the tools to create the all-important encrypted Type 1 fonts and had licenses to produce PostScript typesetters . |
| 16 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |
| 17 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Mr Millman waited for some time but she failed to arrive and he stupidly decided to drive home himself . ’ |
| 20 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 21 | It 's proving to be a strain , both financially and physically — since we are doing as much of the work ourselves as possible — and our friends were convinced for some time that we had gone mad ! |
| 22 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 23 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 24 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 25 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 26 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 27 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 28 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 29 | In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not . |
| 30 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |