Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] some 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 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 3 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't recognise her for some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 17 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 18 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yeah but they 're , but they 're not they 're gon na do it in some time in June I think that 's the target . |
| 21 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 22 | No doubt they will want to interview you at some time . |
| 23 | I have n't been able to make myself believe I hate you for some time now , Luke . ’ |
| 24 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 25 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 26 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 27 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 28 | " I 've been meaning to pop in and see you for some time , " Mrs. Hargreaves went on . |
| 29 | Well , I probably wo n't see you till some time tomorrow . |
| 30 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |