Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [adv] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | These rabbits were probably fattened up for some special occasion . |
| 2 | The muddle and rush were greater even than at Reading , and we were often kept there for some twenty minutes . |
| 3 | I had been happily chatting away for some time to my ‘ invisible ’ recorder before I realized I was not alone . |
| 4 | He was just looking round for some quiet corner to put the case when faintly above the noise in the room he heard the doorbell ring . |
| 5 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |