Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's settled for some biscuits and cheese and a yoghurt and a glass of orange juice . ’ |
| 2 | The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials . |
| 3 | Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague . |
| 4 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 5 | One of the country 's leading experts on the secret services says the evidence confirms what he 's known for some time . |
| 6 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 7 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 8 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 9 | Half wanting to quit , half determined to persevere he was caught for some moments , indecisive and forlorn . |
| 10 | It was very nearly a great voice and sometimes , when Gesner was on form , when he was forced for some reason to try hard , it was a great voice . |
| 11 | Coenwulf vigorously crushed the revolt in Kent and captured Eadberht , who was blinded and mutilated and taken in chains into Mercia ( ASC A , F , s.a. 796 ) where he was imprisoned for some years at Winchcombe . |
| 12 | While your brain is doing that it will be storing the words so that when you look at your sheet of nouns you will recall what was said for some while after it was actually said . |