Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 2 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 3 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 4 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 5 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 6 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 7 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 8 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 9 | FOOTBALL : PSV Eindhoven coach Bobby Robson has had part of his large intestine removed in an operation and is not expected to work again for some weeks . |
| 10 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 11 | Not necessarily idle , casual whim , for we can resolve to select consistently for some quality such as " resemblance to a weeping willow " . |
| 12 | He had been under pressure from Edward III to do so for some time , but he seems also to have feared that Charles V 's forces , which were advancing into the duchy , might revive the rivalries of the civil war period . |
| 13 | We have the distinct feeling that W&M had no intention of relaunching its bid yesterday and may not be about to do so for some time , which begs the question : what 's the strategy ? |
| 14 | I find some people on the streets are quite like , pigheaded and they do n't really want to go back for some reason really . |
| 15 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 16 | The sergeant looked at her closely , obviously wondering if she planned to run off for some reason . |
| 17 | Feeling the pinch : chief executive Jane Tozer ( left ) and marketing manager Jill Warren ( right ) expect potential clients to hold off for some time . |
| 18 | A reader could make a number of inferences about this passage : Mary is female , more probably an adult than a child ; It is morning ; Mary does not want to get up for some reason ; Mary is in bed ; she lives in a house with a refrigerator ; the house is possibly in North America , and so on . |
| 19 | The Russians should have the courtesy to move over for some miles into middle Asia , where there is an abundance of space that lies close to them but far from us : let Russia give us sufficient coast on the Black Sea so that , from there we can resettle our beggars and peasants in Asia Minor … |
| 20 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 21 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |