Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 2 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 3 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 4 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 5 | But it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mark Lennox Boyd , the parliamentary under secretary of state , the foreign and commonwealth office , a position he 's held for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’ |