Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 — . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 6 | did she hesitate for some time before the answers ? |
| 7 | I think I 've known how you feel for some time now . |
| 8 | She thought for some time before saying : ‘ In some degree ’ puts it quite well . ’ |
| 9 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We stew for some time . |
| 13 | We stood for some time watching the ‘ Try your strength ’ machine which was always sited by The Fawcett Statue on Blue Boar Row . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | He has been pressing her to move for some time . |
| 16 | They sat for some time talking and drinking tea before the music began . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
| 21 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |
| 22 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 23 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 24 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 25 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 26 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 27 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 28 | Neither of us spoke for some time until he said ‘ So what 's the deal ? ’ |