Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] for [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll be at Stoke Mandeville for some time and will receive schooling with lessons in English . |
| 2 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 3 | These were the first nuclear stations to be built anywhere in the United Kingdom for some time , and they attracted special attention . |
| 4 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 5 | Inside , Monks stared at Mrs Bumble for some time . |
| 6 | Milton Shulman , in the London Evening Standard , described Crawford and Corbett 's acting as ‘ two of the neatest comic performances I have seen in the West End for some time ’ . |
| 7 | Don has played second fiddle to Damien McCusker for some time now and his county pedigree stretches back to 1983 when he was first honoured as a Minor . |
| 8 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 9 | ‘ Does that mean you 're going to be in New York for some time ? ’ |