Example sentences of "and for some " in BNC.
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1 | In his note he asked for medical help — some vitamins , eye-drops , ‘ as I ca n't go out ’ — and for some money . |
2 | I was partly convinced by Culler 's power of persuasion , and for some time thought that the kinds of analysis he described could be assimilated to practical criticism and the English synthesis . |
3 | And for some there were conferences and congresses in glamorous places , the glittering prizes satirically displayed in Lodge 's Small World . |
4 | Many Russian exiles have long suspected that spies had been planted in their midst by the KGB , and for some the advertisements confirmed their darkest fears . |
5 | With the Hammersmith team he took part in the evolution of the heart-lung machine and for some years the Melrose pump-oxygenator was the standard in Britain . |
6 | During the years of World War N and for some time afterwards there had been a heavy demand for commercial and military explosives but by 1960 when Haslam was made personnel director of the Nobel Division of ICI the demand , particularly for military explosives , had dropped dramatically . |
7 | The kidnappings were a traumatic event and for some time the Gombe Stream Research Centre was closed to students . |
8 | It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US . |
9 | But a more puritan era of egalitarian austerity could make them a lot shyer — and for some time to come . |
10 | And for some reason he found himself drawing a Spitfire . |
11 | Or : ‘ I do n't understand all this modern poetry at all , but I know what I like , and for some reason your poems manage to penetrate even my thick head . |
12 | Of course , for Hitler himself — and for some of his oldest and most fanatical supporters — all these ills were reducible solely to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , a point of dogma which was a fundamental premiss within the Nazi Movement . |
13 | Clothes can be costumes , and for some young women , walking down the street with bleached hair or a biker 's leather jacket says more about them than a thousand words . |
14 | They waved once and I waved back , and for some time I could see their bright jackets in the dappled shade of the afternoon sun . |
15 | It added : ‘ It would be a tragedy if the frustrations and the hardships that the recession has caused , and for some it is still causing , if it meant that Britain threw away all the achievements of the last decade . |
16 | After his election to a five-year term , he said : ‘ Albania has been a one-man country for 70 years , and for some years should be a parliamentary country . |
17 | Intended for the priesthood , Diderot lost his faith and for some years scraped a living as a tutor , hack journalist and translator . |
18 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |
19 | Despite having an income and for some years an indulgent father , the task of raising them can not have been easy . |
20 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
21 | Thickeners and preservatives also are added and for some less critical operations the use of a lemon perfume is tolerated . |
22 | Isaacs named the substance interferon , and for some years vigorous efforts were made to develop it into a practical therapeutic agent . |
23 | We played practice rounds with Greg and for some reason I got talking and joking with him a lot . |
24 | ‘ Psyching-up ’ is what this mental preparation is often called , and for some it starts days before an event . |
25 | Verbal fluency is an asset and for some people spoken presentations are easy . |
26 | And for some people it is . |
27 | Although rejected by the conference , it is noteworthy that the system is now used when the carboxyl group is attached to ring and for some acids ( eg citric acid is 3-hydroxypropane-1,2,3-tricarboxylic acid ) . |
28 | The Feldwebel saw this and for some reason it worried him . |
29 | It was entitled ‘ The Condemned Cell ? ’ and I cut it out and for some while it was on my desk . |
30 | And for some schools , this may be an interesting option , though if carried to extremes , it has serious limitations . |