Example sentences of "[prep] some [noun sg] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 2 | This hour , before the heat began to build up , was the best time of day to be out of doors , and since her mistress would be asleep for some time yet she was free to go as she pleased . |
| 3 | My distress when this bombshell was dropped must have left its mark , for some time later I received a letter enclosing a card signed by a number of Australian cricketers , including Bradman , at a private dinner party . |
| 4 | And thus I can say that both on the moment of this resolution and for some time afterwards I had more sublime and happy feelings than at any former period of my life . ’ |
| 5 | A car with headlights on came towards him , cautiously negotiated the hairpin bend , and for some time afterwards he could hear it grinding up the hill to Albert Terrace . |
| 6 | ‘ For some time now we have operated on a customer-led basis , ’ explained Paul . |
| 7 | For some time now she 'd had the feeling that she was not the flavour of the month as far as he was concerned . |
| 8 | For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process . |
| 9 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 10 | ‘ For some time now I have been thinking I should marry again . |
| 11 | For some time now I have gradually become more and more disillusioned with teaching . |
| 12 | For some time now I have been greatly amused by Ian Wood 's column in the back page . |
| 13 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 14 | Swedish chief Tommy Svensson declared : ‘ If Anders does n't play for his club for some time then it 's going to be very difficult for me to pick him . |
| 15 | very seldom is er one to one situation where the perpetrator does not have a gun or a weapon of some description so I do n't see it as being very helpful . |
| 16 | ‘ Here , have yours , ’ he said , ‘ perhaps with some food inside you you 'll feel better . |
| 17 | in some way so I can go to work . |
| 18 | To some extent both it and its communist rivals were able to take advantage of increasing misery and frustration once the effects of the world economic depression were felt . |
| 19 | To some extent perhaps they were the victims of their own official attitude to what was happening — as when the French Ambassador in London told Eden that a French civil and military resistance organization in Vietnam had the general support of the army and the civil population : whether this was the French or the Vietnamese population was apparently not specified — but in their Declaration of 24 March 1945 the Provisional French Government implied that all the peoples of Indochina were fighting for a common cause ; which was that of the entire French community . |
| 20 | She reminded herself that it was unlikely that all people could possibly be as stupid as she supposed them to be ; that at some level even she , Lydia the clever , could find common ground and communicate intelligibly with other human beings . |