Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | That she belonged to some time , when I was a little kid , that had somehow been barred from my memory . |
6 | She thought for some time before saying : ‘ In some degree ’ puts it quite well . ’ |
7 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
8 | Was n't she entitled to some time of her own after a busy week 's teaching and little free time on Saturday ? |
9 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | They sat for some time talking and drinking tea before the music began . |
12 | ‘ You have the money ? ’ he asked after some time . |
13 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
14 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ’ . |
19 | 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 . ’ |
20 | 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 . ’ |
21 | Neither of us spoke for some time until he said ‘ So what 's the deal ? ’ |