Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] time [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It was some time before they had Liam fit to drive the cart home . |
2 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
3 | It was some time before they were able to leave the hospital , and they went straight to Jack 's barn . |
4 | It was some time before we retrieved them and went into the piggery . |
5 | It was some time before she realised that she was n't just wide awake — she was hungry ! |
6 | It was some time before she could gather her forces sufficiently to stand up and rest her hands on the chill white plaster of the window embrasure . |
7 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
8 | It was some time before he realized that he had been fooled . |
9 | It was some time before he realized that the entire Sakata factory was lit from end to end by bright , dazzling light . |
10 | Which only set Nigel off more , and it was some time before he could attempt an explanation . |
11 | He heard the tin bracelets jangling on her wrists and from time to time she bent her head close over her fists as though blowing on reluctant embers ; but it was some time before he realized that he , too , was naked , and that the hands of the Moi girl were stroking and chafing his own body . |
12 | It was some time before he spoke . |
13 | Her face seemed familiar , but it was some time before he realized that she was the curly-haired bit who had given him the slip some months back . |
14 | In view of the extent of domestic disquiet in the last year of the Crimean War Alexander had every reason to adopt a policy of radical reform , but it was some time before he did so . |
15 | Kneeling , with my head bent over the lavatory , it was some time before I realised this sickness was not a thing I could throw up . |
16 | It was some time since she and Papa had played one of their fierce games ; he never gave quarter to anyone , but she thought that she could remember what he had taught her . |
17 | It was some time after we got married that our relationship became really destructive . |