Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maisie , from deep inside her black linen bag , was muttering about how it was all right for some people . |
| 2 | The pace certainly quickened — too much so for some fathers who believed the conservative minority was trying to hurry them towards a close , leaving some business unfinished . |
| 3 | She had not spoken so elaborately for some time , and Betty knew the warning signs ; so , whereas with anyone else she would have appealed to their better nature , in this case she held her tongue . |
| 4 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 5 | Perhaps not surprisingly for some Americans , as Heath reported , it was not the Vietminh who were seen as the enemy but the French . |
| 6 | Indeed U may have no conventional meaning , which allows for the creation of new terms , nonce expressions , and thus ultimately for some aspects of language change ( for an explanation of how these communications may be understood , see Schiffer , 1972 : Chapter V ) But crucial for pragmatics , Grice 's theory explains how there can be interesting discrepancies between speaker-meaning ( Grice 's meaning-nn ) and sentence-meaning . |
| 7 | Yes , but when you , when you say it 's the end of time it 's , you get some people saying yes it 's always the end , for some country it 's always er collapses or what me have you , it 's always then for some government or country |
| 8 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 9 | ‘ I came up here for some headache tablets , ’ she continued matter-of-factly . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 11 | We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out . |
| 12 | ‘ Your father should go back home for some years and take you with him . |
| 13 | Also , remember that many people with HIV infection may remain perfectly well for some years , and it is not possible to tell who is infected just by looking at them . |
| 14 | Also , remember that many people with HIV infection may remain perfectly well for some years , and it is not possible to tell who is infected just by looking at them . |
| 15 | In America it 's already selling well , but it wo n't be out here for some time . |
| 16 | ‘ It was dry work , ’ Menzies summed up , ‘ so I came back then for some refreshment . |
| 17 | But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers . |
| 18 | Psychological warfare is n't enough for some people . |
| 19 | She felt as though the walls were squeezing in on her ; she looked around wildly for some way to escape . |
| 20 | This test is around now for some people . |
| 21 | He said well really for some reason you ought not to be a nurse . |
| 22 | ‘ Supposing the next time he appears to be suffering from a stomach upset , or a hangover , for that matter , ’ said Rachel thoughtfully , ‘ you were to persuade him to come in here simply for some medication ? ’ |
| 23 | If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent . |
| 24 | Some feel too vulnerable to cope with having boyfriends at all , at least not for some time , and almost all are determined that any man who shows an interest in them will have to accept and love their child too . |
| 25 | I got one down there once for some reason . |
| 26 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 27 | Some of the articles were hard for the layman to follow and quite hard for some clergymen to follow . |
| 28 | Even when they are available they can be expensive , prohibitively so for some people . |
| 29 | Mounce swilled his whisky round moodily for some time , as if trying to think what to do next . |
| 30 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |