Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 3 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 4 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 5 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 6 | When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ? |
| 7 | ‘ It might be my last chance to entertain you for some time to come . ’ |
| 8 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 9 | And not only that , I 'll tell you what I 've longed to tell you for some time , that I think you 're a fool for not having responded to it , for not having done something about it before now . |