Example sentences of "[vb past] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |
| 4 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
| 5 | Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America . |
| 6 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
| 7 | I always get on very well with English prisoners of the R. A. F. I worked for some time at the prison camp where you 'll be going tomorrow , and there I made many good English friends , especially — . ’ |
| 8 | The pair chatted for some time about her work , then the conversation turned to his medical background . |
| 9 | In the early days both methods co-existed for some time in Great Britain , but the adherents of each method campaigned against one another here and elsewhere in Europe until towards the close of the nineteenth century , when oralism for the time being triumphed in all European countries . |
| 10 | I struggled for some time to understand the metaphors until an inner voice said to me during meditation : ‘ You 're in martyr over this book . ’ |
| 11 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |
| 12 | Silence reigned for some time as they attacked the meal . |
| 13 | Lydia lay for some time wondering how best to upset him . |
| 14 | Again Hugh thought for some time . |
| 15 | Alice thought for some time , where to put it . |
| 16 | She thought and thought for some time , and then she smiled . |
| 17 | She thought for some time before saying : ‘ In some degree ’ puts it quite well . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Neither of us spoke for some time until he said ‘ So what 's the deal ? ’ |
| 20 | This train ran for some time , but was not considered entirely successful . |
| 21 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 22 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 23 | We were still confined to our trenches due to the bombardment which continued for some time . |
| 24 | The din and chaos continued for some time after help arrived from the êchelon of spectators , Charles and Peregrine among them . |
| 25 | The uproar in the kitchen continued for some time while Nanny pressed his face against her coat and added her own voice to the tumult . |
| 26 | Plans for the opera continued for some time : |
| 27 | Controversy continued for some time about the identity or otherwise of human and bovine tuberculosis , until the infecting organisms were shown clearly to belong to different species of the large genus Mycobacteria , most of which are harmless to man . |
| 28 | However , the silence continued for some time , as though the other rabbits did not care to mention what they thought was wrong . |
| 29 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ Mr Millman waited for some time but she failed to arrive and he stupidly decided to drive home himself . ’ |