Example sentences of "[verb] there for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 3 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 6 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 7 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 8 | He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time . |
| 9 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
| 10 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 11 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 12 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 13 | He remained there for some time . |
| 14 | Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs . |
| 15 | Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand . |