Example sentences of "[prep] some time he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time he had ignored rumours to that effect but now , he told reporters , he was " immensely pleased " . |
| 2 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |
| 3 | For some time he listened as the sounds drew nearer . |
| 4 | For some time he hung like a bird watching it . |
| 5 | For some time he walked up and down in silence . |
| 6 | In 1841 he joined Messrs Fox & Henderson in Smethwick near Birmingham , where for some time he held the post of chief draughtsman and designer . |
| 7 | Hoping that , in the changed climate of opinion in England , he would soon be granted a pardon , Kinloch returned secretly to London , where for some time he remained under cover until early in 1823 he returned clandestinely to Scotland . |
| 8 | After some time he died , coronary thrombosis . |
| 9 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 10 | After some time he appeared , walking towards me . |
| 11 | They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old . |
| 12 | Nothing is known of Hotham 's early years , but at some time he established himself as a hatter and hosier in Serle Street , Lincoln 's Inn , London , and later ( c .1752 ) in the Strand , advertising his wares by circulating copper tokens in London and the provinces . |