Example sentences of "[adv prt] for some [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings .
2 This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms .
3 Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on .
4 And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man .
5 ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’
6 I slow down for some cows and greet many people but I do n't usually have to stop now , even for elders .
7 Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished .
8 Drop in for some caffeine and culture !
9 By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields .
10 Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle .
11 Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other .
12 Out for some time but still popular are Jilly Cooper 's POLO , ( Corgi , £5.99 ) and Jeffrey Archer 's AS THE CROW FLIES ( Coronet , £5.99 ) .
13 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
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