Example sentences of "[prep] some time [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 My distress when this bombshell was dropped must have left its mark , for some time later I received a letter enclosing a card signed by a number of Australian cricketers , including Bradman , at a private dinner party .
2 And thus I can say that both on the moment of this resolution and for some time afterwards I had more sublime and happy feelings than at any former period of my life . ’
3 For some time now she 'd had the feeling that she was not the flavour of the month as far as he was concerned .
4 For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process .
5 For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence .
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