Example sentences of "[noun prp] for some [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll be at Stoke Mandeville for some time and will receive schooling with lessons in English . |
| 2 | Instead of just , going to Tescos for some groceries or |
| 3 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 4 | Scott has been around the rock and blues circuit in Ireland for some time and has played with many of the top musicians here . |
| 5 | The ship has been at Rosyth for some weeks and work should have started on 1 March . |
| 6 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 7 | The new regime 's most determined opponents eventually emerged as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq , led by Mas'ud Rajavi who established a base in Paris for some years and was reported in 1986 to have made his way to Baghdad . |
| 8 | They said that Dalglish was after Batty for some time but Wilko refused to sell him . |
| 9 | It had been apparent to Hank for some time that , in spite of repeating Grade 12 at school , he was likely to fail his exams again . |
| 10 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 11 | Having lived in Australia for some years and witnessed forest fires , leaping from tree to tree and running along the thin covering of bush and grass , I could enter imaginatively into the prophet 's experience . |
| 12 | But not long after this happy event Fergie became depressed that Andrew would be away in Australia for some months and that she and her baby were being ‘ abandoned ’ . |
| 13 | Category B covered those who had lived in Britain for some time and showed no obvious signs of hostility . |
| 14 | It must have been a Saturday or else Lewis for some reason or other was on holiday from work . |
| 15 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 16 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ No doubt , ’ replied the Ambassador , looking away to Miss Logan for some clue as to the personality of her employer . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've known about Paul for some time and he should bring experience and stability to our midfield , ’ said Derry manager Roy Coyle . |
| 19 | They certainly use MSL for some appointments but , as is well known , they have gone outside to use a number of the major search firms for many of their senior appointments . |
| 20 | SPOUSE to London for some dinner or other . |
| 21 | I stayed with Robert Fraser for some years and it all ended with Robert going to jail on the famous drug bust with the Rolling Stones . |
| 22 | The beggar is plainly moved , and goes on looking curiously at Howard for some moments after he has walked on . |
| 23 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 24 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |