Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] for [det] time " in BNC.

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1 Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague .
2 The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ .
3 One of the country 's leading experts on the secret services says the evidence confirms what he 's known for some time .
4 And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building .
5 He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage .
6 It does not matter , she had thought , numbly , for whatever it was and whatever it has been , it was forbidden for all time .
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