Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 2 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 3 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 4 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 5 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 6 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 7 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 8 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 9 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 10 | He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time . |
| 11 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |