Example sentences of "[verb] it for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 2 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 3 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 4 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 5 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 6 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 7 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 8 | To cross the river we returned to the road , followed it for some way parallel to the railway and then joined the line again near a farm . |
| 9 | Indeed , she had been half expecting it for some time now . |
| 10 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 11 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 12 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 13 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 15 | We 're amazed that we can hear the people downstairs , cos we can hear them like , you know , if you hear somebody above you , walking here dong dong dong dong , above , you can hear it for some reason , below on the ground floor . |
| 16 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't think they 'd print it for some reason . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
| 19 | Use it for some land , maybe here , in the city , as an investment . ’ |
| 20 | And even when it succeeds , there is still a chance that after pursuing it for some way another gazelle passing in front will impede it and its first , tiring target will be able to escape . |
| 21 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 22 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 23 | Probably the best way to find it is to extend a line from Iota Carinæ , in the False Cross , through Beta Carinæ and prolong it for some distance . |
| 24 | but that , as I say for England and France erm they closed it for some reason |