Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 2 | It was n't until the weekend that he started to pine for some entertainment other than the sight of himself in the bathroom mirror . |
| 3 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 4 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 5 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 6 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 7 | Carter he had known for some ten years , firstly at Shrivenham , three miles away in the Vale of the White Horse , and now at Watchfield . |
| 8 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 9 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 10 | When Churchill became Prime Minister Keynes was invited into the Treasury , where he continued to press for some sort of deferred pay . |
| 11 | At Cambridge Lehmann had founded Grant a , which he continued to edit for some years after leaving university . |
| 12 | This is going to be an interesting meeting , Alan says it will be over by two thirty because he 's organized for some training to happen then on er disciplinary issues . |
| 13 | But it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mark Lennox Boyd , the parliamentary under secretary of state , the foreign and commonwealth office , a position he 's held for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’ |