Example sentences of "[verb] it for some " in BNC.
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1 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
2 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
3 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
4 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
5 | But it was not vulgarity , just rudery — and he would do it for some very distinguished people we had on the set sometimes . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
10 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
11 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
12 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | To cross the river we returned to the road , followed it for some way parallel to the railway and then joined the line again near a farm . |
15 | Indeed , she had been half expecting it for some time now . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
19 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
20 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
21 | Well I think it 's only if you want to do er you know like doing it for some , something or other is n't it ? |
22 | We 're amazed that we can hear the people downstairs , cos we can hear them like , you know , if you hear somebody above you , walking here dong dong dong dong , above , you can hear it for some reason , below on the ground floor . |
23 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
24 | ‘ I did n't think they 'd print it for some reason . |
25 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
26 | Use it for some land , maybe here , in the city , as an investment . ’ |
27 | 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 . |
28 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
29 | not using it for some |
30 | 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 . |