Example sentences of "[pron] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other point on that is that the draft matters for the E I P including matter two D have been known to everyone for some considerable time . |
| 2 | The D O E objection has been known to everyone for some considerable time and their statement is quite explicit in what it says in relation to the matter of one D. |
| 3 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
| 4 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 5 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 6 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 7 | You take me for some kind of fool , do you ? |
| 8 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 9 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 10 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 11 | Because the Kurecolor KC-400 Brush Pen range is easily portable — all 60 pens fit into a compact work station with a rest that doubles as a carrying handle — I took it with me for some outdoor sketching . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If the Inspector had planned to unsettle me for some reason , he had succeeded . |
| 16 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was too upset to eat or drink , but she sat with me for some time , talking gently to me , wiping away my tears , and helping me to recover . |
| 19 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 20 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 21 | When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ? |
| 22 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 23 | That 's why he left me for some other woman — one who did n't booze and do embarrassing things , or get moody , or stupid , or passionate . ’ |
| 24 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 25 | Erm , on the grounds that the substance he was dealing with was complicated , and I think , erm , colleague is right to reprove me for some of the language . |
| 26 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 27 | Can anyone tell me where ‘ balmpot ’ did originate as it has puzzled me for some 60 years ? |
| 28 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 29 | And erm he 's hired from me for some time now |
| 30 | She 's always pissed off with me for some reason ! |