Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a basalt flow has cooled sufficiently for some sort of crust to form , one of two possible things can happen . |
| 2 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 3 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 4 | He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time . |
| 5 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
| 6 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 7 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 8 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |