Example sentences of "was [adv] for some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers .
2 It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations .
3 She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean .
4 I had a Festive Cichlid which jumped out of my tank and was out for some time .
5 Er , he was indeed for some time the er secretary of the er er divisional Labour party .
6 He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’
7 ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline .
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