Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 2 | It meant they were here for some time . |
| 3 | Er , he was indeed for some time the er secretary of the er er divisional Labour party . |
| 4 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |
| 5 | What was one more thief in Southwark , and what was there for some of its people except snatching and pickpocketing ? |
| 6 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |