Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] for some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm here for some time , not forever .
2 I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline .
3 You are in for some surprises .
4 Oh you 're in for some fun .
5 I can tell you you 're in for some trouble if you start that because I I is you you 're all in trouble if you want to start these smaller committees , we have looked at the committees and as I say we make no apology for the number of committees or the number that 's on 'em .
6 Tony 's back now so we 're off for some gnocchi .
7 An Injun' yelled ‘ White men … we 're in for some fightin' … they 're not having our bison to eat . ’
8 I thought we were in for some stability .
9 There you are , there 's enough for some Coke .
10 This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident .
11 It meant they were here for some time .
12 First , a careful search ( takes 10 Turns ) of the alchemical section turns up two works of note : De Lapis Philosophorum in Bretonnian , and the small and quirky Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic ) ; the latter needs an I test to find it unless the adventurers know that it 's here for some reason .
13 Sometimes a most carefully planned game structure is ineffective because it is not for some reason appropriate either to the material or to the particular class .
14 He 's away for some time .
15 It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers .
16 It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations .
17 She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean .
18 Er , he was indeed for some time the er secretary of the er er divisional Labour party .
19 He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’
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