Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside .
2 They are for some reason most dreadfully at home in Paris — ‘
3 Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other .
4 The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract .
5 What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars .
6 He was for some time a broken man .
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