Example sentences of "[prep] some time but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not for some time but we are not worried , miss , it 's not unusual for the gentry , if you will excuse me saying so , to keep folks waiting for payment . ’ |
| 2 | Most of these had been producing un-hinted PostScript fonts for some time but they now all had the tools to create the all-important encrypted Type 1 fonts and had licenses to produce PostScript typesetters . |
| 3 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |
| 4 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 5 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ Mr Millman waited for some time but she failed to arrive and he stupidly decided to drive home himself . ’ |
| 7 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |