Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 4 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 5 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 6 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 7 | He remained there for some time . |