Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , I studied for some while a figure chalked on a great blackboard which stood close to the bench bearing the sheeted body . |
| 2 | And all the time I watch for some sign of awareness in P and M. None appears . |
| 3 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 4 | 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 — . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I looked for some sign of a woman 's occupation , and found none . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 9 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 13 | I have for some reason a picture of a rather youthful military historian . |
| 14 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 15 | The systems planning team will ensure that the subsystems are developed according to the plan which allows for some form of integration later . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We were still confined to our trenches due to the bombardment which continued for some time . |
| 21 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 22 | Nothing happened for some while after the collapse of the Fearless talks . |
| 23 | For example , an English person who lives for some time in the United States will often acquire a " partially " American accent . |
| 24 | She says for some reason he did n't come back for it . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean … ’ she strove for some kind of coherence ‘ … |
| 26 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And now , Ruth , will you ring for some tea ? |
| 28 | did she hesitate for some time before the answers ? |
| 29 | Cook for 1 hour 43 minutes and you have Death Becomes Her , a frothy souffle whose first bite melts deliciously in the mouth but soon leaves you champing for some meat . |
| 30 | I think I 've known how you feel for some time now . |