Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 2 | Israeli children eat these pancakes during Hanukkah in December but you can make them at any time of the year . |
| 3 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 4 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 5 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 7 | I did n't recognise her for some time . |
| 8 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 9 | If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ? |
| 10 | So many of us keep so many medicines on our shelves for donkeys years in the hope that we might find a pill that will suit us at some time . |
| 11 | About one-third of pupils have traditionally attended them since that time . |
| 12 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 13 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 14 | This was the last day of these services , and there is talk of reviving them at some time in the future but using modern Sprinter units . |
| 15 | Michael might come to visit her at any time . |
| 16 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 18 | Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming . |
| 19 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 20 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 23 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
| 24 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 25 | His sideways glance told her he 'd noticed the manoeuvre but he merely smiled as if , knowing he could curtail it at any time , he was allowing her that small freedom . |
| 26 | I 'll tell them you can borrow it at any time . |
| 27 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 28 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 29 | I mean if he was going to attack me , he 'd surely do it at some time when he had a reason to be angry . |
| 30 | I did that when I was seven and different people can do it at any time . |