Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 2 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 3 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 4 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 5 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 6 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 7 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 8 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 10 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 11 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 12 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 13 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 14 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 15 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 16 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 17 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 18 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 20 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 21 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 22 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 23 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 24 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 25 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 26 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 27 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 28 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 29 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 30 | After staring about for some time , they ran across to a little mound some way away and looked again . |