Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , it was to take on consultative functions ; in practice , most observers expected it to act as a clearing house for mutual trade between its members , which was expected to remain important for some years , and to co-ordinate east European policy toward the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 2 | Access to Microsoft 's technology , which Insignia has had in-house for some time , is expected to make SoftPC run MS-DOS and Windows programs at near native performance probably by the end of the year . |
| 3 | Access to Microsoft 's technology , which Insignia has had in-house for some time , is expected to make SoftPC run MS-DOS and Windows programs at near native performance probably by the end of the year . |
| 4 | ‘ The public has known that for some time . ’ |
| 5 | The medical profession has known this for some time , though , so it 's hardly hot news . |
| 6 | St Mary 's was destined to lie idle for some years until the foundation of the Chalford Stick Company in 1903 . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't appear to have used this for some time . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Pébereau may want to push harder for some sort of three-way alliance . |
| 9 | I 've seen that for some time . |
| 10 | It would be foolish to make a strong claim about the salience of the JC STRUT vowel for LE speakers on the strength of limited data like this , but it does appear that for some speakers , this point of difference between LE and JC falls below a " salience threshold " which leads it to be ignored for adaptation purposes , while for other speakers it is salient enough to be adapted , but not consistently . |
| 11 | He continued to do this for some time . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've known that for some time . |
| 13 | X-rays showed there was no serious damage to the skull , but Dr Volkov had remained unconscious for some time after the door had been finally broken down . |
| 14 | In 1902 , after the Hall had stood empty for some years , Lord Halifax lent it to a small community of Church of England Benedictines under Abbot Aelred Carlyle , the subject of a book Abbot Extraordinary . |
| 15 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 16 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |