Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 16 | I have for some reason a picture of a rather youthful military historian . |
| 17 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 18 | She asked for some answers to specific points . |
| 19 | Then she stoops for some pebbles and warns that I 'd better come in now . |
| 20 | She says for some reason he did n't come back for it . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean … ’ she strove for some kind of coherence ‘ … |
| 22 | 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 … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And now , Ruth , will you ring for some tea ? |
| 24 | did she hesitate for some time before the answers ? |
| 25 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I think I 've known how you feel for some time now . |
| 28 | When you ask for some information from hard disk , the coaching controller grabs more information than you need from the same area of the disk . |
| 29 | She thought for some time before saying : ‘ In some degree ’ puts it quite well . ’ |
| 30 | You go for some tree . |