Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 31 | In fact , the light weight , the attractive looks , the easy-feeling neck and the light , low action make it one of the most pick-up-able guitars we 've had for some time . |
| 32 | If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 33 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 34 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 35 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 36 | erm We had to look for some lower riders and erm Tony Primmer of course comes in at four , which helps us immensely . |
| 37 | Garden Life could turn out to be the most valuable contribution to conservation we have seen for some time . |
| 38 | President Michael Ainslie noted ‘ a greater level of consignment activity than we have seen for some time . |
| 39 | One of the most blatant and invidious pieces of political skulduggery we have seen for some time . |
| 40 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
| 41 | One practice we have followed for some time in mid-week housegroups is to follow up and apply further what has been taught on Sunday . |
| 42 | We have to allow for some license : he is writing to his brother in Paris about this street pick-up and doing his best to make it palatable . |
| 43 | The Major , a close confidant of the Princess , added : ‘ We have known for some time that some very senior members of the IOC have the knives out for our sport . |
| 44 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
| 45 | ‘ The decision to print elsewhere was a commercial one , for we have known for some time that the quality of our printing of newspapers leaves a lot to be desired , while our commercial printing side is first class . |
| 46 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
| 47 | The oil mingled with the warm salty water which leaked from places in the ceilings , and that was one of the reasons they had asked for some sort of banister rail to hold on to in the narrow winding-stair . |
| 48 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 49 | ‘ I am sure that both Prince Charles and Princess Diana will feel a tremendous sense of sadness and of failure too , as they have done for some time . |
| 50 | Small producers appear to see inferior bargaining strength as the price they have to pay for some continuity in orders . |
| 51 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 52 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
| 53 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 54 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 55 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 56 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 57 | Carter he had known for some ten years , firstly at Shrivenham , three miles away in the Vale of the White Horse , and now at Watchfield . |
| 58 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 59 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 60 | For its part Thames Water welcomed the report , but spokesman Tom Curtin says the company 's been acting on the sorts of things it 's recommended for some time . |