Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was possibly the first steam working along here for some 25 years . |
| 2 | The schoolmaster then spent an endless period fussily sorting out his things — extracting a folded newspaper and a small bag of plums from his case , arranging the case on the rack , examining the seat minutely for anything unpleasant and giving it a brush with the back of his hand , folding his jacket and his jumper with ritualistic care , adjusting the window in consultation with the lady , but without reference to me or to the young Swede , getting his case down again for some forgotten item , checking his hankie , readjusting the window . |
| 3 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 5 | ‘ I came up here for some headache tablets , ’ she continued matter-of-factly . |
| 6 | This was owned by the skipper who had stocked up well for some unofficial business on his return to Finland . |
| 7 | We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out . |
| 8 | ‘ Your father should go back home for some years and take you with him . |
| 9 | In America it 's already selling well , but it wo n't be out here for some time . |
| 10 | Alan and John our reporting team there at , one apiece , Shrewsbury and Blackburn , back there for some second half commentary later on . |
| 11 | ‘ It was dry work , ’ Menzies summed up , ‘ so I came back then for some refreshment . |
| 12 | We are to walk the quarter of a mile to the Commons and then back again for some ‘ final remarks ’ . |
| 13 | She felt as though the walls were squeezing in on her ; she looked around wildly for some way to escape . |
| 14 | This test is around now for some people . |
| 15 | Mounce swilled his whisky round moodily for some time , as if trying to think what to do next . |
| 16 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 17 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |