Example sentences of "[vb past] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 2 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 3 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
| 4 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 5 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |
| 6 | Hilary Burden asked for some expert views — and , overleaf , we ask your opinion |
| 7 | Eventually he was taken into the West Sussex hospital and when Mr Smith visited him , he asked for some chlorodyne . |
| 8 | At my urging , he asked for some more photographs as I was keen on the idea of this spotlessly clean , ruthlessly attractive family in their Nordic pine kitchen . |
| 9 | When the pope asked for some sign by which he could tell ‘ which requests are important to us and are dear to our heart , and which are not ’ , Edward indicated early in the new year that he would mark such requests with the words Pater Sancte , written in his own hand , but he promised that these requests would be employed with restraint — ‘ only as we can and ought ’ . |
| 10 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 11 | The idea of eating these things seemed absurd , and yet Pinkie asked for some . |
| 12 | The bank asked for some security for this amount and the defendant promised by letter to charge certain goods and to pay the proceeds thereof to the bank against the overdraft . |
| 13 | I asked for some children to work with me . |
| 14 | She asked for some answers to specific points . |
| 15 | Father asked for some volunteers to help Nicky collect at the back of the Church , he has already arranged this himself . |
| 16 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 17 | Only querulous pupils and awkward governors at interviews asked for some justification for studying it . |
| 18 | I asked for some once . |
| 19 | I 'd laugh if somebody asked for some , what are them lemon bonbons . |
| 20 | But they 're all the same so that if you are er with which is the medical side and an opportunity arose for some other reason for you to transfer to another group we have n't got to retrain you . |
| 21 | Heavy going at Heathfield made for some slow times at the South Down & Eridge , where Chris Gordon scored a double for the second successive Saturday on Kirstenson and Please Explain . |
| 22 | This made for some tight weightless riding . |
| 23 | He had no short-term memory , which made for some strange dishes but it kept her safe from him . |
| 24 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 25 | As Jim Kantelis , an OUS representative on the team , says : ‘ Members of the group were extremely strong willed and independent types and that made for some very healthy debate . ’ |
| 26 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 27 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 28 | After the fall of Calais , when war ceased for some years , the king had to persuade the commons that direct taxes should continue in order to finance the defence of English positions abroad , notably Calais itself , and to maintain English forces in a state of readiness in case the enemy broke the truce and resumed the war . |
| 29 | They provided for some right to initiate legislation ( at present the prerogative of the Commission ) , and for the EP to see Commission proposals before the Council of Ministers , which would then work on texts already amended by the EP . |
| 30 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |