Example sentences of "[vb past] for some of " in BNC.

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1 Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped .
2 in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time
3 However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control .
4 The deal included the offices attached to one of the hangars , so I arranged for some of these to be converted into laboratories for the processing of flight data and cockpit voice recorders .
5 To write about emotions may mean that at times a piece of writing in social science reads more like a novel , indeed , may sometimes be a novel — Freud called Moses and Monotheism a novel , and apologized for some of his case-histories reading like novels rather than scientific treatises .
6 He has done more theological ‘ homework ’ here than he did for some of his own religious books , and it shows , even though learning was never more lightly worn .
7 Although the growth of Brighton accounted for some of this expansion , most of the burden fell on an economic base too narrow to cope adequately , there being few alternatives to agriculture .
8 Neither was there the more deadly flak which confronted the interdiction or pre-Invasion attacks on railway centres , which accounted for some of our best PFF crews .
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