Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 2 | I agree it 's hard to distinguish between our footprints but this stain , this wetness , shows someone stood here for some time , their cloak and boots heavy with snow . |
| 3 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 4 | I know he asked me to stay but I wanted more for some reason . ’ |
| 5 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 6 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 7 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 8 | Of course you can make appalling howlers if you set out for some reason to portray life in a social area unknown to you . |
| 9 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 10 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 11 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 12 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 13 | Humiliation of those in power We search diligently for some fault in them and , having found it , we broadcast our discovery through the instantly available and internationally linked media , sometimes with negligible supporting data . |
| 14 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 15 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 16 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 17 | ‘ As Mr. Pannick says , it cries out for some explanation from the board . |
| 18 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 19 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 20 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 21 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 22 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 23 | He looked around for some measure of comparison . |
| 24 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 25 | He had also for some reason tried to mask part of his window . |
| 26 | He remained there for some time . |