Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , that 's the end of that then , so let's move on to the projected sales reports I asked for last time . |
| 2 | 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 — . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 5 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 6 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 7 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The evidence of psychoanalysis shows that almost every intimate emotional relation between two people which lasts for some time — marriage , friendship , the relation between parents and children — contains a sediment of feelings of aversion and hostility , which only escapes perception as a result of repression . |
| 10 | We were still confined to our trenches due to the bombardment which continued for some time . |
| 11 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 12 | For example , an English person who lives for some time in the United States will often acquire a " partially " American accent . |
| 13 | did she hesitate for some time before the answers ? |
| 14 | I think I 've known how you feel for some time now . |
| 15 | She thought for some time before saying : ‘ In some degree ’ puts it quite well . ’ |
| 16 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 17 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 18 | Your mother has been difficult again , he told her , best for her and you to travel for some time — Papa , where are we going ? — The tickets are for England . |
| 19 | We stand for some time looking at its forty-six Doric columns ( some of them , sadly , fallen ) , appreciating the entasis , the capital formation , the details of the entablature , and so on . |
| 20 | We stew for some time . |
| 21 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , anyhow , ’ she went on , as she fumbled for the matches and lit the gas lights , ‘ we 'll have Christmas together in peace , and — and in case it 's the last we have for some time , we 'll make it as nice as possible . |
| 23 | There had for some time been complaints about the secular elements in Catholic church music , the exhibitionism of organists , the use of tropes , the obscuring of the sacred texts by polyphony , and so on . |
| 24 | He has been pressing her to move for some time . |
| 25 | They sat for some time talking and drinking tea before the music began . |
| 26 | It has for some time been considered a most urgent need to extricate mentally handicapped children from long-stay hospitals and stop their admission to them , and there has , as a result , been a sharp fall in the numbers of mentally handicapped children in hospitals . |
| 27 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 28 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 29 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 30 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |