Example sentences of "this for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no case beyond this for some mysterium , an agent of non-material origins , unless information processing itself is given that status . |
| 2 | He travelled like this for some distance , meeting no other traffic . |
| 3 | He continued to do this for some time . |
| 4 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 5 | I worked on this for some time and extended , integrated and tried to twist it to my style . |
| 6 | Secondly , if she 's likely to … be like this for some time , that the Lord Whatsit is the best nursing home available . ’ |
| 7 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 8 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 9 | As an intermediate skier I found some of the information ( eg buying skis and the extensive section on snowboarding ) irrelevant as I will not be doing this for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't appear to have used this for some time . ’ |
| 11 | The medical profession has known this for some time , though , so it 's hardly hot news . |
| 12 | Bill Clough lay thinking about this for some time . |
| 13 | They lay half entwined like this for some time , occasionally exchanging kisses . |
| 14 | I also understand that one of the street lights in Lower Dolphinholme is burning continuously and has been like this for some time . |
| 15 | ‘ You will have to live with this for some time , ’ the sheriff added . |
| 16 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |