Example sentences of "and [verb] for some time " in BNC.

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1 He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton .
2 In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child .
3 I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head .
4 Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector .
5 Above all , they will need your loving understanding and support for some time to come .
6 He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information .
7 Allowed to choose her hairdresser , Carole Ann Ford plumped for an up-and-coming young stylist she had known and visited for some time named Vidal Sassoon .
8 ‘ You drove to Penzance , leaving home at about seven-thirty , you went to the film and started to drive back , but your van broke down at Badger 's Cross and after trying to start it and sheltering for some time , you walked home , arriving at about half-past two . ’
9 In its rough state , he showed it to the Professor , who bent his grey beard over the neat script , and read for some time in silence .
10 We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's .
11 The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion .
12 I sit and stare for some time , wondering if he is sick .
13 She thought and thought for some time , and then she smiled .
14 She got up slowly from the table , washed up the mug , and stood for some time absolutely still , staring .
15 First appearing as tiny black spots on the upper surfaces of leaves , this is the outward sign that the fungus has already been inside the tissue and working for some time .
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