Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
2 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
3 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
4 | There was a ‘ Refuge Rota ’ pinned by the house telephone , with six different names filled in for different times in the week . |
5 | SKIPPER Allan Border hit his highest first-class score of the tour as Australia made up for lost time on a rain-hit day against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
6 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
7 | This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had . |
8 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
9 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
10 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
11 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
12 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
13 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
14 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
15 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
16 | This went on for some time . |
17 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
18 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
19 | Some comparisons of the seasons can be included here and sunny or shady parts of the garden sorted out for various times of the day . |
20 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
21 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
22 | I draw on feeling banked up for that time . |
23 | Its tail , so fine and thin that it was like a thread of silver , stretched out for ten times its circumference , terminating in a smaller , silvered sphere little thicker than the thread . |
24 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
25 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
26 | I agree it 's hard to distinguish between our footprints but this stain , this wetness , shows someone stood here for some time , their cloak and boots heavy with snow . |
27 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
28 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
29 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
30 | He remained there for some time . |