Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 2 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 3 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 4 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 5 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 6 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 7 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 8 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 9 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 10 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 11 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 12 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 13 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 14 | It will not run again for some time , but from the human point of view , all was well . |
| 15 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 16 | He had been under pressure from Edward III to do so for some time , but he seems also to have feared that Charles V 's forces , which were advancing into the duchy , might revive the rivalries of the civil war period . |
| 17 | We have the distinct feeling that W&M had no intention of relaunching its bid yesterday and may not be about to do so for some time , which begs the question : what 's the strategy ? |
| 18 | Whatever the readers ' perception , Le Monde is changing and will go on doing so for some time to come . |
| 19 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 20 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 21 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 22 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 23 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 24 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 25 | As often as possible , they should invite Fido to play and play nicely for some time so Fido enjoys himself . |
| 26 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 27 | I had been happily chatting away for some time to my ‘ invisible ’ recorder before I realized I was not alone . |
| 28 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 29 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 30 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |