Example sentences of "[adv prt] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 2 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 3 | This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had . |
| 4 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 5 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 6 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 7 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 8 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 9 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 10 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 11 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 12 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 13 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 14 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 15 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 16 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 17 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 18 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 19 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 20 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 21 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 22 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 23 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 24 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 25 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 26 | There 's always talk like this , Anne , but it 's usually politicians just trying it on for some advantage . |
| 27 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 28 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 29 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 30 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |