Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 2 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 3 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 4 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
| 6 | Irwin , too , came in for some criticism from his own side , notably from Churchill , who was famously appalled by the ‘ spectacle of this one-time Inner Temple lawyer , now seditious fakir , striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceroy 's palace , there to negotiate and parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor ’ , but generally he was showered with praise . |
| 7 | W H Smith came in for some surprisingly harsh comment from the financial press last week after the group 's interim results had revealed a 20% drop in pretax profits . |
| 8 | The involvement of IL-10 in the inhibition of macrophage anti-schistosome effector functions ( James ) , and the Th1 down-regulation which accompanies egg-associated Th2 responses , came in for some debate . |
| 9 | When the Volvo 700 series was launched , the saloon 's rear styling , though effective in its use of space , came in for some heavy criticism in terms of appearance . |
| 10 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 11 | The attitude of men — not just the middle-aged grey-suits at the top but increasingly of young grey-suits who put their career above that of their partners ' — came in for some stick . |
| 12 | But Labour Party councillors also came in for some criticism from delegates . |
| 13 | A great camaraderie and friendship evolved and miracle of miracles , he settled down for some years before a dark-haired , dark-eyed endomorph stole his heart for good . |
| 14 | This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had . |
| 15 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 16 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 17 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 18 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 19 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 20 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 21 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 22 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 23 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 24 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
| 25 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 26 | This went on for some time . |
| 27 | In the last week , Italian politics became even more chaotic than usual , and Germany went in for some ‘ neo-Nazism ’ . |
| 28 | He went in for some pretty awful names , Robbie decided — first Sybil , now Petula . |
| 29 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 30 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |