Example sentences of "[verb] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time .
32 Introduced populations now feral in southern England probably account for some Sussex records , making the status of truly wild birds very difficult to assess .
33 Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason .
34 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to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason .
35 It was one of the most complicated developments undertaken for some time , with Wendy working weekends and holidays to complete the project .
36 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 .
37 He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton .
38 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 .
39 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 ) .
40 So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water .
41 Hilary Burden asked for some expert views — and , overleaf , we ask your opinion
42 When the pope asked for some sign by which he could tell ‘ which requests are important to us and are dear to our heart , and which are not ’ , Edward indicated early in the new year that he would mark such requests with the words Pater Sancte , written in his own hand , but he promised that these requests would be employed with restraint — ‘ only as we can and ought ’ .
43 The bank asked for some security for this amount and the defendant promised by letter to charge certain goods and to pay the proceeds thereof to the bank against the overdraft .
44 Only querulous pupils and awkward governors at interviews asked for some justification for studying it .
45 Eventually he was taken into the West Sussex hospital and when Mr Smith visited him , he asked for some chlorodyne .
46 By working co-operatively , long-term , with the people around me , I hope to continue for some time yet .
47 By working co-operatively , longterm , with the people around me , I hope to continue for some time yet .
48 This mortaring is going to continue for some time . ’
49 The remaining colleges of higher education , approximately thirty in number , have their courses validated by the CNAA and , although the movement in this direction away from university validation has slowed down considerably , it is likely to continue for some time to come .
50 The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active .
51 Pioneer must be assuming this trend is going to continue for some time ; its Wakefield plant does not go fully on line until 1994 .
52 The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time .
53 Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time .
54 An attempt to remove Kevin Maxwell has been mooted for some time .
55 That system had been intended for some time .
56 Because , for reasons mentioned earlier , the itching may persist for some time , an just in case the first application was not exhaustive , it is quite common to advise a second treatment one week after the first .
57 To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing .
58 Israeli leaders had recognized for some time the need for a powerful outside backer .
59 The release of these chemicals following drainage has been recognized for some time , but researchers at the Australian national research organization ( CSIRO ) now offer an explanation of the cause and also point to the great risks involved in large-scale land reclamation projects .
60 ( This reference to the task of childhood is rather my own effort to develop Spinoza 's own richly fruitful but rather abstract ideas in more concrete terms than a direct report upon what he says — the same goes for some other of my remarks . )
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