Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] some time " in BNC.

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1 The prices of certain goods too — notably manufactured goods — appear to be ‘ administered ’ , or set for some time so that they do not respond immediately to changes in supply and demand .
2 One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past .
3 Computerisation , although established for some time in sales and administration , has been introduced to Production Control .
4 He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton .
5 In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child .
6 I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head .
7 Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector .
8 Above all , they will need your loving understanding and support for some time to come .
9 He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information .
10 Allowed to choose her hairdresser , Carole Ann Ford plumped for an up-and-coming young stylist she had known and visited for some time named Vidal Sassoon .
11 ‘ You drove to Penzance , leaving home at about seven-thirty , you went to the film and started to drive back , but your van broke down at Badger 's Cross and after trying to start it and sheltering for some time , you walked home , arriving at about half-past two . ’
12 In its rough state , he showed it to the Professor , who bent his grey beard over the neat script , and read for some time in silence .
13 It does not matter why a State has failed to become a party to a treaty , or whether it is eligible to become a party and intends at some time to do so .
14 We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's .
15 The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion .
16 I sit and stare for some time , wondering if he is sick .
17 She thought and thought for some time , and then she smiled .
18 After playing through figs 5 and 6 it is a good idea to record some major or ‘ 5 ’ ♯4/♯11 chords such as those in fig 4 ( resolved to either a sus4 or the major on the same root ) and put in some time improvising over them to familiarise yourself with the sound and feel of the scale .
19 ‘ I can clean in the house , look after the chickens , and put in some time with Dolly in the dairy . ’
20 If you do n't you could use an A four pad building up a picture of the guy and trying at some time
21 She got up slowly from the table , washed up the mug , and stood for some time absolutely still , staring .
22 First appearing as tiny black spots on the upper surfaces of leaves , this is the outward sign that the fungus has already been inside the tissue and working for some time .
23 Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested .
24 A Somali taxi-driver denounces those in his country who still think they can make a radical revolution , before turning to a discussion of the narcotic , khat , legally available in Britain but banned for some time in the US .
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