Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 2 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 5 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
| 6 | No brief summary can possibly do justice to the depth of the analysis ; but it has already been tried out on some uncommonly hard-nosed customers , and elicited their approbation . |
| 7 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 8 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 9 | Worse still , the dish has probably been cleaned out with some form of modern detergent . |
| 10 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 11 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 12 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 13 | The first is the ‘ life course ’ approach which was first developed by sociologists , but has recently been taken up by some historians . |