Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came here for some answers . |
| 2 | I agree it 's hard to distinguish between our footprints but this stain , this wetness , shows someone stood here for some time , their cloak and boots heavy with snow . |
| 3 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 4 | I know he asked me to stay but I wanted more for some reason . ’ |
| 5 | Some composers , therefore , set up their own publishing enterprises which did well for some years , especially during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Britain in 1982 . |
| 6 | Flying north from the island they spotted the vessels at 1215 , but almost at once were attacked by patrolling fighters , three Fulmars of 808 Squadron and three Skuas of 800 , reporting one of each type on their tail , which remained there for some twenty minutes . |
| 7 | Polly 's grip on the wheel tightened as , head and heart in raging conflict , she sought wildly for some means of escape . |
| 8 | So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again . |
| 9 | In 1863 he died and the mills were leased to Reynolds and Allen , who remained there for some years . |
| 10 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 11 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 12 | In the event I was shown into a small room with Her Majesty , where we sat together for some twenty minutes chatting amiably about almost anything under the sun . |
| 13 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 14 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 15 | It climbed steeply for some moments and then hung , apparently motionless , like a miniature sun above the sepoy encampment . |
| 16 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 17 | It started early for some with a trip to just north of the Scottish border to practise demolition techniques . |
| 18 | He had also for some reason tried to mask part of his window . |
| 19 | He remained there for some time . |