Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] for some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 2 | A donation from your club to the mayor 's charity each year is a small price to pay for some good coinshooting sites . |
| 3 | Ruffled , and pent-up in his urge to plump for some outright and decisive plan , he grabbed the poker and hit the smouldering coals . |
| 4 | There is a general objective to look around — not a specific objective to look for some particular thing . |
| 5 | Moreover , a certain prominent Liberal Democrat candidate in both elections found energy to spare for some strenuous Christian Aid , thus earning the gratitude and admiration of his fellow church members . |
| 6 | This is no time to desert for some illusory future . |
| 7 | In Ireland , Diarmaid , King of Dublin , made two attacks on Meath along with the King of Ossory , and , noticing that there were few Orkney ships these days in the water and no Orkney attempts at interference , decided it was time to look for some easy weapons and cattle and money , and maybe even a harbour or two . |