Example sentences of "there for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 2 | It appeared that we were going to be there for some time . |
| 3 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs . |
| 6 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |
| 7 | Which must mean that he intends to be there for some time . |
| 8 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 9 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 10 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He remained there for some time . |
| 15 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 16 | Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand . |
| 17 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 18 | He was there , and there for some time , poking into everything . |
| 19 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 23 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 24 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 25 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 26 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 27 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 28 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |
| 29 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 30 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |