Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for some children to work with me . |
| 2 | I asked for some once . |
| 3 | In particular , I studied for some while a figure chalked on a great blackboard which stood close to the bench bearing the sheeted body . |
| 4 | And all the time I watch for some sign of awareness in P and M. None appears . |
| 5 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 6 | Ten miles out , while pedalling uphill through the dripping gloom of a forest , I prayed for some vital piece of bike to snap off and put an end to my misery . |
| 7 | The deal included the offices attached to one of the hangars , so I arranged for some of these to be converted into laboratories for the processing of flight data and cockpit voice recorders . |
| 8 | I always get on very well with English prisoners of the R. A. F. I worked for some time at the prison camp where you 'll be going tomorrow , and there I made many good English friends , especially — . ’ |
| 9 | I watched her go with sadness in my heart because I felt for some inexplicable reason that I would never see Granny again . |
| 10 | I struggled for some time to understand the metaphors until an inner voice said to me during meditation : ‘ You 're in martyr over this book . ’ |
| 11 | I looked for some sign of a woman 's occupation , and found none . |
| 12 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 13 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 14 | Erm I think for some reasons Trudy we so a rogue in there , bridge assessment records , I applies to P Way . |
| 15 | but I do n't see the real relevance and I think one of the reasons that erm I mean I , I hear it and I know that Freud was very critical of religion and I , I , I think for some very good reasons , |
| 16 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 17 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 18 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 19 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 20 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 21 | I longed for some . |
| 22 | Martin becomes careless , I settle for some solid red-and-colour , red-and-colour stuff . |
| 23 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 24 | I have for some reason a picture of a rather youthful military historian . |
| 25 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 26 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 27 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 28 | Filter tip cigarettes , which account for some 97% of cigarettes sales in the UK , yield less tar than plain cigarettes although some filter brands yield more carbon monoxide . |
| 29 | I 'd laugh if somebody asked for some , what are them lemon bonbons . |
| 30 | He had no short-term memory , which made for some strange dishes but it kept her safe from him . |