Example sentences of "[vb past] there [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 2 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 3 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 4 | Over the farmhouse door is a date stone , 1712 , referring to Roger and Isabella Taylor , who lived there at that time . |
| 5 | The question wanted to know who lived there in Roman times . |
| 6 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 7 | William Formston was a tenant at Marton in 1529 ; by the seventeenth century there were five branches in various parts of the parish , one of which continued there till Victorian times . |
| 8 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 9 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 10 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 11 | He remained there for some time . |
| 12 | Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs . |
| 13 | Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand . |