Example sentences of "for [adj] time i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | They waved once and I waved back , and for some time I could see their bright jackets in the dappled shade of the afternoon sun . |
2 | For some time I could not speak . |
3 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
4 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
5 | And for next time I 'll get some erm a special set of tables for him a lot easier to learn so that he can learn his tables and he 'll only have to learn about half of them and then he 'll know all of them . |