Example sentences of "[pron] for some " in BNC.
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| 31 | You take me for some kind of arsehole ! |
| 32 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 33 | not talking to me for some reason . |
| 34 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |
| 35 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 36 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 37 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 38 | It was impossible for the garrison to fire upon them for some time without risk of injuring their neighbours along with their enemies . |
| 39 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 40 | He had been with them for some time ; two or three years before , he had told her that he did n't know where he had been born , or who his parents were . |
| 41 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 42 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 43 | The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment . |
| 44 | ‘ I think that either Floy could n't leave them for some reason , or — ’ |
| 45 | Mr McQueen , who would be with them for some weeks , was accompanied by one of the Macleods of Raasay to pilot them , Malcolm Macleod , aged sixty-two . |
| 46 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 47 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 48 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 49 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 50 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 51 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 52 | what we 're dealing with is a small group of MP s who thought there were some advantages in the Paignton amendment I 've discussed it very thoroughly with them for some time , and they agree that there were real difficulties about the Paignton amendment which I 've now addressed |
| 53 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |
| 54 | The reason why they maintained these holdings in dollars , rather than selling them for some other currency , was that dollar investments in New York remained attractive despite the decline in the relative value of the dollar in the early seventies . |
| 55 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 56 | erm I would suggest that anybody who 's really erm concerned in the way you were can either approach their local Education Authority and ask them for some kind of information on this . |
| 57 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
| 58 | If you have not been contact with someone for some time and do not have a directory which is updated frequently , a quick phone call tell you whether your contact is still there or has moved on . |
| 59 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 60 | No you say that I once got off with someone for some cigarettes , I never felt so awful . |