Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 3 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 4 | His father had even telephoned his ex-wife to tell her about what had happened and she had then spoken to Tony , who had not heard from her for some months . |
| 5 | She had n't heard from her for some time . |
| 6 | And erm he 's hired from me for some time now |
| 7 | The other point on that is that the draft matters for the E I P including matter two D have been known to everyone for some considerable time . |
| 8 | The D O E objection has been known to everyone for some considerable time and their statement is quite explicit in what it says in relation to the matter of one D. |
| 9 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 10 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |