Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 2 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | Can anyone tell me where ‘ balmpot ’ did originate as it has puzzled me for some 60 years ? |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 7 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 8 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 10 | credit card or trading check which can be used only in specific shops ) ; or it is unrestricted , where the borrower gets a loan of money which he could in practice use for whatever he wants ( even if he has in fact arranged to use it for some particular purpose ) . |
| 11 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 12 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 13 | St Matthew 's seems to suit her for some reason . |
| 14 | And not only that , I 'll tell you what I 've longed to tell you for some time , that I think you 're a fool for not having responded to it , for not having done something about it before now . |
| 15 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 16 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 17 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 18 | ‘ Someone did ask us for some nude photos as well , ’ frowns Sam , desperately , ‘ But I reckon that was just people trying it on more than anything else . ’ |
| 19 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 20 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 21 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 22 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 23 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 24 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've known you for some years now . |
| 26 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 27 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
| 29 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 30 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |