Example sentences of "[prep] some time [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time we 've been in a false position and our two games against Birmingham have confirmed this . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For some time we have been promised legislation to reform the laws on friendly societies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For some time she had felt a curious weightiness , then sudden relief . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 13 | For some time he had ignored rumours to that effect but now , he told reporters , he was " immensely pleased " . |
| 14 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |
| 15 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 16 | For some time it has been evident that all I am to you is a vessel to receive your seed . |
| 17 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 18 | It is no good throwing things at them when they are safely in their dug-outs and shelters , but at some time they have to come out into the open , if only to change their clothes and appearance , and that is when we can get at them . |