Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always get on very well with English prisoners of the R. A. F. I worked for some time at the prison camp where you 'll be going tomorrow , and there I made many good English friends , especially — . ’ |
| 2 | I struggled for some time to understand the metaphors until an inner voice said to me during meditation : ‘ You 're in martyr over this book . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 4 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 5 | Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America . |
| 6 | We were still confined to our trenches due to the bombardment which continued for some time . |
| 7 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 8 | That she belonged to some time , when I was a little kid , that had somehow been barred from my memory . |
| 9 | She thought for some time before saying : ‘ In some degree ’ puts it quite well . ’ |
| 10 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 11 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 12 | Was n't she entitled to some time of her own after a busy week 's teaching and little free time on Saturday ? |
| 13 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
| 14 | There had for some time been complaints about the secular elements in Catholic church music , the exhibitionism of organists , the use of tropes , the obscuring of the sacred texts by polyphony , and so on . |
| 15 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 16 | They sat for some time talking and drinking tea before the music began . |
| 17 | ‘ You have the money ? ’ he asked after some time . |
| 18 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
| 19 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |
| 20 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 21 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 22 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 23 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 24 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 25 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 26 | Neither of us spoke for some time until he said ‘ So what 's the deal ? ’ |