Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for some time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 2 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 3 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 4 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 5 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 6 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 7 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 8 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |