Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging the competition has taken quite some time and was no easy matter . |
| 2 | ‘ Danker , ’ said the man in battle-dress , and to me : ‘ Hullo , old boy ’ as if it was inevitable that I should have come there some time or other , and went on throwing the ball about . |
| 3 | He is believed to have died there some time between A.D. 64 and 67 . |
| 4 | Normally , he said , it was not difficult to revive babies who suffered collapses , but it had taken quite some time to get signs of life from Liam . |
| 5 | I have spent quite some time considering the best format for the book and , after much deliberation , have decided to set out in bold type the precedents clause by clause interspersed with my own comments , followed , once again in bold type , by my suggested amendments to the particular parts of the precedents , where those amendments are not readily identifiable from my comments in the text . |
| 6 | Steven Marcus has suggested that : ‘ Pornography , in the sense that we understand it today , is a historical phenomenon ; it begins to exist significantly some time during the middle of the eighteenth century , and flourishes steadily — though with periodic fluctuations in intensity — throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . ’ |