Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uproar in the kitchen continued for some time while Nanny pressed his face against her coat and added her own voice to the tumult . |
| 2 | As it happened , though the tension continued for some time after the building of the Berlin Wall in August to stop the flight of East Germans to the West , the two sides had to settle for a stalemate . |
| 3 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 4 | Plans for the opera continued for some time : |
| 5 | However , the silence continued for some time , as though the other rabbits did not care to mention what they thought was wrong . |