Example sentences of "sometimes [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many others , it too had its great hall in which the classes did sometimes mingle for such festivities as Mr Lyle 's Christmas celebration . |
| 2 | Advance orders are sometimes placed for all the titles in a particular series , though this is more dubious , not only because titles in a series vary , but because suppliers tend to overlook volumes which come out at prolonged and irregular intervals . |
| 3 | He explained his vision of primacy stemmed from the way the Pope can sometimes speak for all Christians in a way that no other bishop can . |
| 4 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 5 | We can and do sometimes charge for this time , but where there are significant PR benefits for the Garden and its activities , and companies are not willing to pay , we do not charge . |
| 6 | Where the great rivers of molten lava had flowed in the distant past was now a jumbled mass of solidified rock-like structures which sometimes stretched for many kilometres . |
| 7 | Clare was aware that black caps occasionally over winter , and that their song is sometimes mistaken for that of a nightingale . |