Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be [adj] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 2 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 3 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 4 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 5 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 6 | In fact it had been open for some time already as had half a dozen other places within easy walk because America believes in man 's inalienable right to eat whenever he is awake . |
| 7 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 8 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 9 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 10 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 11 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |