Example sentences of "[pn reflx] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 2 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 3 | But I suggest that the human will be wetting itself for some time . ’ |
| 4 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 5 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 7 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 8 | There is also frequent movement as groups of children rearrange themselves for some fresh topic or activity . |
| 9 | As the geological cycles repeated themselves for some three thousand million years , as the volcanoes exploded and spent themselves , life in the sea burgeoned into many forms ; but the land still remained barren . |
| 10 | Difficulties also arise in the case of damage done in the past , or when the effects do not manifest themselves for some time . |
| 11 | Instead of joining in with my group in recognising this success and congratulating the managers , the party opposite showed its usual churlishness by trying to congratulate themselves for some reason or other . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , prepare yourself for some surprises when you cross the borders . |
| 13 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |