Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 2 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 3 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 4 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 5 | This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had . |
| 6 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 7 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 8 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 9 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 10 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 11 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 12 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 13 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 14 | This went on for some time . |
| 15 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 16 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 17 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 20 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 21 | I agree it 's hard to distinguish between our footprints but this stain , this wetness , shows someone stood here for some time , their cloak and boots heavy with snow . |
| 22 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He remained there for some time . |
| 26 | Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs . |
| 27 | Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand . |