Example sentences of "[v-ing] for some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 2 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 3 | One possible reason for the lack of motivation within her class could be attributed to tasks not being sufficiently challenging for some pupils , whilst being beyond the intellectual grasp of others . |
| 4 | After trading for some months , he has been approached by a company which says it owns the rights to the trade name Pizza Parlour and that he must desist from using it . |
| 5 | Such realities , as pressing for some heads in the suburbs as in the inner city , presented an agenda which primary orthodoxies addressed only partly , if at all . |
| 6 | I have n't read such a self-consciously ‘ literary ’ book about climbing for some years , and that style came as a shock , perhaps even intrusion : |
| 7 | But none of this was in Sara 's mind as she patted Jenny 's arm , seeking for some words of comfort . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend will be aware that the commuters in Kent are looking for some advantages from the channel tunnel rail link . |
| 9 | The uhum , C & A 's has a lot of them , went down there looking for some shoes for Amy . |
| 10 | I 'm looking for some smokes to smoke . |
| 11 | She stood up quickly and began rummaging in her bag , desperately looking for some francs so that she could pay the woman and leave . |
| 12 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 13 | After lunch , looking for some chocolates , she went muttering round the room . |
| 14 | In 1794 her father took a commission in the army , serving for some years in Ireland . |
| 15 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 16 | He has concentrated on writing for some years , but says he will go back into court when , and if , he finds a case that appeals to him . |
| 17 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 18 | When such means failed the extended family gave support most often in the form of food or of caring for some children of the family until a crisis was over , or permanently if it was sustained . |
| 19 | Byelarus ( on Jan. 3 ) and Ukraine introduced coupon systems for paying for some purchases [ see p. 38732 ] . |
| 20 | As before the Polish crisis , there was little protest except from the far left who kept the local Councils of Action going for some months as centres of mobilization and revolutionary propaganda . |
| 21 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 22 | at the minute , we 're waiting for some bits for this should be in today . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm still working on them , waiting for some details from Mike . |
| 24 | Cameron sensed Menzies waiting for some words — any words . |
| 25 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 26 | After calling for some ice-cubes which we popped into the straight Pernod , we drank them down , with predictably weird results ( we had already had Dexedrine ) . |
| 27 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 28 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 29 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 30 | One three-month-old baby managed to talk its parents into sending Santa a letter asking for some clothes and a few bits for the cot . |