Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for some children to work with me . |
| 2 | In particular , I studied for some while a figure chalked on a great blackboard which stood close to the bench bearing the sheeted body . |
| 3 | And all the time I watch for some sign of awareness in P and M. None appears . |
| 4 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 5 | 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 — . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I looked for some sign of a woman 's occupation , and found none . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erm I think for some reasons Trudy we so a rogue in there , bridge assessment records , I applies to P Way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 12 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 17 | I have for some reason a picture of a rather youthful military historian . |
| 18 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 21 | This has led to a crisis of legitimacy for the system : not only for the prisons ( whose claim to be providing effective rehabilitation was always shaky in many eyes ) but equally for other components of the penal system , notably the probation service which has for some years now been uncertain about what its proper rationale and direction should be . |
| 22 | The systems planning team will ensure that the subsystems are developed according to the plan which allows for some form of integration later . |
| 23 | FOR TWO DAYS I WENT ABOUT RACKING MY BRAINS FOR A PLOT OF ANY SORT ; – ON THE SECOND NIGHT I DREAMED THE SCENE AT THE WINK ) W , AND A SCENE AFTERWARD SPLIT IN TWO , IN WHICH HYDEPURSUED FOR SOME CRIME , TOOK THE POWDER AND UNDERWENT THE CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS PURSUERS . |
| 24 | Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America . |
| 25 | Assume that the time to move from one cylinder to the next is the same as the rotation time of the device , which applies for some disk devices . |
| 26 | The Alpha 's ability to delete a whole effect from a patch ( or add another ) is a godsend , and I found it useful to dispense with the equaliser , which worked for some sounds but definitely not for others . |
| 27 | The evidence of psychoanalysis shows that almost every intimate emotional relation between two people which lasts for some time — marriage , friendship , the relation between parents and children — contains a sediment of feelings of aversion and hostility , which only escapes perception as a result of repression . |
| 28 | This resulted in passage of flatus , which continued for some minutes . |
| 29 | We were still confined to our trenches due to the bombardment which continued for some time . |
| 30 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |