Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 3 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 6 | Martin sat down ; he had been wanting to get to know Sarah better for some time and this seemed like a good opportunity . |
| 7 | As often as possible , they should invite Fido to play and play nicely for some time so Fido enjoys himself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although many would now see this HCF model as pushing RE into a backwater if it is pursued on its own , it is still a highly influential view , and is likely to go on being so for some time because Agreed Syllabuses on the whole encourage it . |
| 10 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 11 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 12 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 13 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 14 | By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically . |
| 18 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 19 | Out for some time but still popular are Jilly Cooper 's POLO , ( Corgi , £5.99 ) and Jeffrey Archer 's AS THE CROW FLIES ( Coronet , £5.99 ) . |
| 20 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 21 | I had known them now for some time and smiled at the thought of their good company . |
| 22 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 23 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 24 | Martha had been far from well for some time and was in need of another operation . |
| 25 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 26 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 27 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 30 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |