Example sentences of "[prep] some time [pers pn] [vb past] " 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 she looked round the garden for them and then went into the house . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For some time she had felt a curious weightiness , then sudden relief . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For some time she stayed with the Kleibers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For some time he had ignored rumours to that effect but now , he told reporters , he was " immensely pleased " . |
| 12 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |
| 13 | For some time he listened as the sounds drew nearer . |
| 14 | For some time he hung like a bird watching it . |
| 15 | For some time he walked up and down in silence . |
| 16 | In 1841 he joined Messrs Fox & Henderson in Smethwick near Birmingham , where for some time he held the post of chief draughtsman and designer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 21 | After some time she roused and took her way |
| 22 | After some time he died , coronary thrombosis . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | After some time he appeared , walking towards me . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |