Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 2 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 3 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 4 | Certain branches of the Ulster Workers ' Council wished for more time to prepare their particular factory or section of industry . |
| 5 | The facades of 106 houses were rapidly built , but it was another twenty years or more before many of the interiors were begun and Kemp Town stayed for some time rather like a giant film set with the image of grandeur propped up by heavy wooden beams . |
| 6 | This train ran for some time , but was not considered entirely successful . |
| 7 | Plans for the opera continued for some time : |
| 8 | Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers . |
| 9 | Silence reigned for some time as they attacked the meal . |
| 10 | However , the silence continued for some time , as though the other rabbits did not care to mention what they thought was wrong . |
| 11 | Controversy continued for some time about the identity or otherwise of human and bovine tuberculosis , until the infecting organisms were shown clearly to belong to different species of the large genus Mycobacteria , most of which are harmless to man . |
| 12 | The din and chaos continued for some time after help arrived from the êchelon of spectators , Charles and Peregrine among them . |
| 13 | The noise continued for same time and as the male laughter increased I realised the parcel must be a large one . |
| 14 | The uproar in the kitchen continued for some time while Nanny pressed his face against her coat and added her own voice to the tumult . |
| 15 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 16 | Magistrates adjourned the hearing until later today after a solicitor asked for more time to consult his clients . |