Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 3 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 4 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 8 | Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future . |
| 9 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 10 | I did n't recognise her for some time . |
| 11 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 12 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 13 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 14 | That pleased her for some unknown reason . |
| 15 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 16 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 17 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 19 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 22 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 23 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 24 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 25 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 26 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 27 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 28 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 29 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 30 | But it was not vulgarity , just rudery — and he would do it for some very distinguished people we had on the set sometimes . ’ |