For some time past Borrow's thoughts had been directed towards obtaining a Government post abroad.
In reply to an enquiry from Mr Jowett as to what manner of progress he was making, he wrote "For some time past I have taken lessons from a person who was twelve years in Pekin, and who speaks Manchu and Chinese with fluency.
For some time past it had been obvious to Borrow that he was becoming more than ever unpopular with certain interested factions in Madrid, who looked upon his missionary labours with angry disapproval.
For some time past he has laid aside his surplice; and has managed to get justification by faith, and the new birth, into every sermon.
For twelve years, Hutchins had been Fellow of Lincoln, where also, for some time past, Whitelamb and Westley Hall had been studying, to the content of Wesley.
For some time past, there have been about twenty souls each week added to it.
For some time past I have not used it, but I am now able to do the housework for myself, husband and two children (aged nine and five years).
For some time past I have not used it but I am now able to do the housework for myself, husband and two children (aged nine and five years).
For some time past, Miretta had been sad and pensive.
However, you have been so distraught, so pensive, for some time past, that if I did not know you, I should really believe that you had some passion in your heart!
The fire is supposed to have originated from a clock maker, who has been, for some time past, occupied in repairing the clock in that tower, who might accidentally, have dropped a spark from a candle.
James Arnold, a boy about 12 years of age, and who, for some time past, had been in Towser’s employ.
For some time past, the father, a miller by trade, could only with difficulty obtain work as a journeyman.
For some time past he had been haunted by the Anarchist peril.
For some time past he had lost favour with the King and with Madame de Maintenon, for opposing the declaration of her marriage-- of which marriage he had been one of the three witnesses.
For some time past he had had a confessor who, although a Jesuit, kept as tight a hand over him as he could.
For some time past, we had seen no turtle, and it was probable that the cold weather had driven them to a warmer climate.
For some time past, a secret correspondence had taken place between him and the king.
For some time past, the public mind had been prepared for his trial.
For some time past he had opened a negotiation with Pope Pius VII.
For some time past my parents had prepared the way for this no-longer-to-be-deferred enlightenment.
For some time past, Félix Deviolaine, who looked the very picture of health, had been troubled with a cough, and was losing flesh.
The King's chronic and long-seated infirmities have become sensibly worse for some time past, his health has been very considerably impaired and his condition necessitates more frequent consultations.
You may remember that, for some time past, people have been much taken up with la Peyrouse?
That post has, for some time past, been pretty regularly supplied, and I hope will continue to be for some time to come.
Is it the fact that your relations with your late husband had not been, for some time past, relations of mutual affection and confidence?
For some time past I had been keeping myself very short of cash, and for this reason--which I tell you because it is a vital point, as you will see in a minute.
But Manderson, for some time past, had made her miserable.
For some time past he had been keeping watch over her, following her about, knowing all her movements.
But these excursions taking place two or three times a week began to weary Duroy, who had great difficulty, besides, for some time past, in procuring the ten francs necessary for the cake and the drinks.
Indeed, for some time past, he might be said to hover between reason and dotage.
For some time past, he had almost given himself over to the influence of what he experienced--a fact that was observable in many ways, all more or less tending to revive the affection which he felt for his departed wife.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for some time past" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
