Example sentences of "[pron] was for some " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
2 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
3 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
4 | And from previous experience it was for some no longer a matter of automatic belief when Hitler declared that ‘ the Bolshevik hordes … will be smashed into oblivion by us in the coming summer ’ . |
5 | When the fashion changed after the war , it was difficult for some older singers , just as it was for some of the stars of silent films when the talkies came in . |
6 | By 1922 it was for some such a strong attitude as almost to obliterate the normal responses of party . |
7 | He was for some time a broken man . |
8 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
9 | Very widely read and a lover of drama and music , he was for some thirty years one of the most influential members of the famous Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne . |
10 | ‘ Its distinctive feature is the outer wall facing what was for some time the running lines of the railway , though these tracks are now wholly within the works area , the main lines passing on the other side of the canal . |