Example sentences of "it [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years . |
| 2 | Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch . |
| 3 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 4 | Back to acting , he found occasional work in television drama but nothing substantial came along , nor would it for some time to come . |
| 5 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 6 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 7 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 8 | There is nothing worse than being told ‘ Yes , we had a lovely book all about the fête we held for the coronation , but I have n't seen it for some years . |
| 9 | I did n't get over it for some time ; it had touched my heart . |
| 10 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 11 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 12 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 13 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 14 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 15 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 16 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 17 | credit card or trading check which can be used only in specific shops ) ; or it is unrestricted , where the borrower gets a loan of money which he could in practice use for whatever he wants ( even if he has in fact arranged to use it for some particular purpose ) . |
| 18 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 19 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't think they 'd print it for some reason . |
| 21 | A high dry-stone wall enclosed the land round it for some four or five acres , and inside this enclosure were more trees , oak and fir and beech above the massed colours of rhododendrons in flower , with one big horse-chestnut in full bloom holding its creamy candelabra out across the wall . |
| 22 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 23 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 24 | But when we have got such a satisfactory outcome , unless subsequent events show that we have got it wrong , or that we have wrongly read the environment or some other major change , we would aim to stick with it for some years . |
| 25 | Probably the best way to find it is to extend a line from Iota Carinæ , in the False Cross , through Beta Carinæ and prolong it for some distance . |
| 26 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 27 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 28 | And even when it succeeds , there is still a chance that after pursuing it for some way another gazelle passing in front will impede it and its first , tiring target will be able to escape . |
| 29 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |
| 30 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |