Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 31 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 32 | Fedorov had suspected for some time , and now he knew . |
| 33 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 34 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 35 | At Cambridge Lehmann had founded Grant a , which he continued to edit for some years after leaving university . |
| 36 | Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor . |
| 37 | erm We had to look for some lower riders and erm Tony Primmer of course comes in at four , which helps us immensely . |
| 38 | When Churchill became Prime Minister Keynes was invited into the Treasury , where he continued to press for some sort of deferred pay . |
| 39 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 40 | Carter he had known for some ten years , firstly at Shrivenham , three miles away in the Vale of the White Horse , and now at Watchfield . |
| 41 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 42 | The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany . |
| 43 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 44 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 45 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 46 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 47 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |
| 48 | The Editor had asked for some more films to add to my list to show to your fish . |
| 49 | The oil mingled with the warm salty water which leaked from places in the ceilings , and that was one of the reasons they had asked for some sort of banister rail to hold on to in the narrow winding-stair . |
| 50 | But the works of Lloyd Webber himself continued to account for some 85 per cent of the group 's earnings . |
| 51 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 52 | I had hoped for some characteristic entry in his unflaggingly ironic Dictionnaire des idées reçues ; but it jumps pointedly from cognac to coitus . |
| 53 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 54 | Phyllis enjoyed telling all that had happened for some days . |
| 55 | It was now criticized as anachronistic , and the German government had signalled for some time its concern over rising costs and their justifiability at a time when German unification put great strains on the public finances [ see also pp. 37212 ; 38508 ] . |
| 56 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 57 | Plans for the extension of the war in Vietnam had existed for some time in the Pentagon . |
| 58 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 59 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 60 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |