Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for some [noun sg] " 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 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 7 | I did n't recognise her for some time . |
| 8 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 11 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 17 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 18 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 19 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 20 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 21 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 22 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 23 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 24 | I have n't been able to make myself believe I hate you for some time now , Luke . ’ |
| 25 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 26 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 27 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 28 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 29 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 30 | " I 've been meaning to pop in and see you for some time , " Mrs. Hargreaves went on . |