Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for [det] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 2 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 3 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 4 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 5 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 6 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 7 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |