Example sentences of "[verb] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Because yes , we did say we were n't going to use tropical markets , erm perhaps in the view of some of the things Bob Plumtree 's been saying , perhaps that was a little bit premature , perhaps we would want for some countries tropical woods , might want to reconsider , but erm I think that 's something for the future , that 's not for this afternoon . |
| 32 | It proposed a network of under-fives centres throughout the borough — an idea which the under-fives workers had been anxious to promote for some time . |
| 33 | Time to move on , maybe , to search for some answers before the whole thing comes down around my ears . |
| 34 | ‘ I really came to search for some things for my collection . ’ |
| 35 | If this is in the form of a loose box to which the cow can adapt for some days before calving , then there is inevitably less stress . |
| 36 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Fabia awoke on Friday with a smile on her face , and lay for some while with thoughts of Ven in her head . |
| 39 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 40 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 41 | Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason . |
| 42 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 43 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 44 | Introduced populations now feral in southern England probably account for some Sussex records , making the status of truly wild birds very difficult to assess . |
| 45 | Filter tip cigarettes , which account for some 97% of cigarettes sales in the UK , yield less tar than plain cigarettes although some filter brands yield more carbon monoxide . |
| 46 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 47 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 48 | Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 . |
| 49 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 50 | CPRW has evidence that the sale of holiday units as permanent residences is already beginning to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 51 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 52 | It was one of the most complicated developments undertaken for some time , with Wendy working weekends and holidays to complete the project . |
| 53 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 54 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 55 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 56 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |
| 57 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 58 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
| 59 | She asked for some answers to specific points . |
| 60 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |