Example sentences of "for [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time he walked up and down in silence . |
| 2 | For some time he hung like a bird watching it . |
| 3 | For some time he listened as the sounds drew nearer . |
| 4 | For some time he had ignored rumours to that effect but now , he told reporters , he was " immensely pleased " . |
| 5 | Hoping that , in the changed climate of opinion in England , he would soon be granted a pardon , Kinloch returned secretly to London , where for some time he remained under cover until early in 1823 he returned clandestinely to Scotland . |
| 6 | In 1841 he joined Messrs Fox & Henderson in Smethwick near Birmingham , where for some time he held the post of chief draughtsman and designer . |
| 7 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 8 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |
| 9 | but , for some time he , and it , it just used to let him get it out of his system |
| 10 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |