Example sentences of "[prep] some time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the group had known her and her children for some time they agreed to ‘ have a go ’ and the placement went ahead . |
| 2 | Despite constructing one of their most positive displays for some time they lost to a French team who profited from the only genuine opportunities they created . |
| 3 | For some time we 've been in a false position and our two games against Birmingham have confirmed this . |
| 4 | In his introduction to the environmental policy document which will be issued to employees in 1993 , Chief Executive Kneale Ashwell explains : ‘ For some time we have recognised the need for a policy to increase awareness , to deal with environmental issues and to implement systems which ensure the Company complies with all relevant legislation and manages the essential attitudinal and behavioural changes that are likely to affect business operations . |
| 5 | For some time we have been promised legislation to reform the laws on friendly societies . |
| 6 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 7 | For some time she looked round the garden for them and then went into the house . |
| 8 | For some time she had done all that was possible to avoid going out in the rain as she could not bear the thought of the water touching her skin . |
| 9 | For some time she had felt a curious weightiness , then sudden relief . |
| 10 | After living rough for some time she decided that we offered the best chance of a home , and moved in Fizzy 's attitude is ambivalent . |
| 11 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 12 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 13 | For some time she stayed with the Kleibers . |
| 14 | For some time I had nourished a wish to write a war memoir , and after a while , and with the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the war , the desire became urgent . |
| 15 | Would it be feasible , I asked myself , to fill what for some time I had thought was a serious gap in British military history , namely a socio-military chronicle of the last hundred years of the army 's mounted arm ? |
| 16 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 17 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 18 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 19 | For some time he had ignored rumours to that effect but now , he told reporters , he was " immensely pleased " . |
| 20 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |
| 21 | For some time he listened as the sounds drew nearer . |
| 22 | For some time he hung like a bird watching it . |
| 23 | For some time he walked up and down in silence . |
| 24 | In 1841 he joined Messrs Fox & Henderson in Smethwick near Birmingham , where for some time he held the post of chief draughtsman and designer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
| 27 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 28 | For some time it has been evident that all I am to you is a vessel to receive your seed . |
| 29 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 30 | For some time it stood as the seventh ‘ port ’ in the kingdom , despite the fact that its quays were some distance away ; its merchants had exclusive rights over trade in much of western Sussex for most of the later middle ages . |