Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] for some time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computerisation , although established for some time in sales and administration , has been introduced to Production Control . |
| 2 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 3 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 4 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 5 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
| 6 | In its rough state , he showed it to the Professor , who bent his grey beard over the neat script , and read for some time in silence . |
| 7 | A Somali taxi-driver denounces those in his country who still think they can make a radical revolution , before turning to a discussion of the narcotic , khat , legally available in Britain but banned for some time in the US . |