Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all the time I watch for some sign of awareness in P and M. None appears . |
| 2 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 3 | I have for some reason a picture of a rather youthful military historian . |
| 4 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 5 | I think I 've known how you feel for some time now . |
| 6 | When you ask for some information from hard disk , the coaching controller grabs more information than you need from the same area of the disk . |
| 7 | You go for some tree . |
| 8 | You wish for some wine ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We hope for some sort of strengthened glass and double locks , ’ he said . |
| 10 | We stand for some time looking at its forty-six Doric columns ( some of them , sadly , fallen ) , appreciating the entasis , the capital formation , the details of the entablature , and so on . |
| 11 | We stew for some time . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , anyhow , ’ she went on , as she fumbled for the matches and lit the gas lights , ‘ we 'll have Christmas together in peace , and — and in case it 's the last we have for some time , we 'll make it as nice as possible . |
| 13 | Once you are in the loft , it is better to use compression or push-fit fittings since they allow for some adjustment later and the fire risk of using a blowlamp is avoided . |
| 14 | If they ask for some cheese , you wo n't get it on the meat counter will you ? |