Example sentences of "was [verb] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 2 | Half wanting to quit , half determined to persevere he was caught for some moments , indecisive and forlorn . |
| 3 | Her new owner was prepared for some difficulty , and so took Anna to a good professional horsebreaker ; but to no avail . |
| 4 | While your brain is doing that it will be storing the words so that when you look at your sheet of nouns you will recall what was said for some while after it was actually said . |
| 5 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 6 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 7 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 8 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 9 | The idea of two particles so near in mass was troubling for some people and made them wonder if some misinterpretations had occurred ; in particular Patrick Blackett , another Nobel Laureate , raised a question as to whether there might be other explanations of the pion decay . |
| 10 | The aim was to put south Korea on a viable footing in case unification of the peninsula was postponed for some years . |
| 11 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 12 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 13 | The commercial terminal was closed for some kind of police operation . |
| 14 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 15 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 16 | The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials . |
| 17 | It was to last for some months yet . |
| 18 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 19 | He said he was coming for some gnocchi tonight . |
| 20 | Vera Loomis , the ninety-two-year-old who lived at number 92 and was known for some reason as Got All the Things There Then ? had offered plum wine or home-brewed lager and Susan Doyle , who was reported to watch News at Ten while her husband pleasured her , had suggested lemonade shandy . |
| 21 | The stage was set for some alignment between the individual , a single political authority , and a single territory , culture and language ; a passive patriotism that was defined by the existence of clear enemies abroad . |
| 22 | This approach was followed for some months , so that an impressive list was produced of sensitive organisms , including many important pathogens . |
| 23 | No. 16 was sent there early in 1928 and was gone for some time . |
| 24 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 25 | It was very nearly a great voice and sometimes , when Gesner was on form , when he was forced for some reason to try hard , it was a great voice . |
| 26 | After closure of Woodhead as a through route , the Sheffield to Penistone section was retained for some time in order to allow upgrading of the route via Barnsley . |
| 27 | Can he explain why that information was concealed for some weeks in one case ? |
| 28 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 29 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 30 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |