Example sentences of "and [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 2 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 3 | Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 . |
| 4 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 5 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 6 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 7 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 8 | Fabia awoke on Friday with a smile on her face , and lay for some while with thoughts of Ven in her head . |
| 9 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 10 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 11 | If so he wonders if the patient needs to cry and has for some reason stopped himself . |
| 12 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 13 | ‘ He could get stopped and searched for some quite other reason . |
| 14 | I had known that this was pending but when , over the last few weeks , I had enquired when they were going to start out , the reply was always the same , ‘ Oh , I think we 'll wait a bit and hope for some warmer weather . ’ |
| 15 | Above all , they will need your loving understanding and support for some time to come . |
| 16 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
| 17 | He moved along the hedge , feeling the breeze from the south and looking for some spot where he could sit and scent it without too much risk . |
| 18 | Allowed to choose her hairdresser , Carole Ann Ford plumped for an up-and-coming young stylist she had known and visited for some time named Vidal Sassoon . |
| 19 | ‘ You drove to Penzance , leaving home at about seven-thirty , you went to the film and started to drive back , but your van broke down at Badger 's Cross and after trying to start it and sheltering for some time , you walked home , arriving at about half-past two . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps the shopkeeper should have a panic button under the counter to press during such a confrontation , and while humouring the shopper by pretending to go and look for some grey ones , stout men could rush in and restrain the customer before he can make it to his Access card . |
| 21 | I 'll go and look for some wallpaper . |
| 22 | In its rough state , he showed it to the Professor , who bent his grey beard over the neat script , and read for some time in silence . |
| 23 | But to Perdita they appeared curiously passive , sitting and waiting for some man to make them unhappy . |
| 24 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 25 | On Whitsunday 1658 a stranger called at his house and begged for some small beer . |
| 26 | Go and look for some of your friends , the Stewpot fan club , and ask them to play for your precious team . |
| 27 | So I had to go to Moscow and look for some plywood . |
| 28 | Instead , he is expected to surrender one-third of the Championship and opt for some easy money . |
| 29 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 30 | I sit and stare for some time , wondering if he is sick . |