Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for some [noun] " 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 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 3 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 12 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 15 | There is nothing worse than being told ‘ Yes , we had a lovely book all about the fête we held for the coronation , but I have n't seen it for some years . |
| 16 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 17 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 18 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 19 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 20 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've known you for some years now . |
| 22 | The Tryons , in return , have frequently joined him for some fishing at Balmoral . |
| 23 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 24 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 25 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |