Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So always buy more flowers and foliage than you think you will need to allow for some spares . |
| 2 | Recovery takes about a month but bouts of fever and liverishness can keep returning for some while . |
| 3 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 4 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 5 | As we have seen , the establishment of NAB , with its very strong representation from the local authorities , creates a new environment for the polytechnics , and the colleges and institutes of higher education , to which they will have to adjust for some years to come . |
| 6 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 7 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 8 | These are , I hope , the last Darwin books I shall have to read for some years ( unless of course Sydney Smith produces one ) . |
| 9 | On 26 May Mozart appeared at court before the King of Prussia , a keen amateur cellist , who may have asked for some quartets . |
| 10 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 11 | Some people will have to pay for some services . |
| 12 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 13 | The village of Weston in which Leapor would have lived for some time was six miles north of Brackley . |
| 14 | Well we 're just I 'm just we might have to ask for some money for it . |
| 15 | You might go hoping for some insight into the goat-hair experiences of Professor Peters or Evans-Pritchard , but , after the initial polite questions , you are asked if you have heard the news from Iran . |
| 16 | Most people would agree that the first of these could be dispensed with without much regret or difficulty , but the others do seem to call for some sort of ceremony . |
| 17 | Some of these worms may also secrete anticoagulant , and small vessels , ruptured in the digestion of the mucosal plug , may continue to bleed for some minutes after the worm has moved to a fresh site . |
| 18 | The evils of the system of exploitation and oppression will continue to exist for some time . |
| 19 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |