Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 2 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 3 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 4 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 5 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 6 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 7 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 8 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 9 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 10 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 11 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 12 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 13 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 14 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 15 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 17 | I 'm trusting you with some part of the background . |
| 18 | Or will the Chief Secretary and his friends be sunning themselves in some tax haven by that time ? |
| 19 | But I suggest that the human will be wetting itself for some time . ’ |
| 20 | The words coming from behind her sent Lindsey Blake whirling to face the speaker , a slim , dark-haired girl of about her own age , who seemed to be regarding her with some amusement . |
| 21 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 22 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 23 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 24 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 25 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 26 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |
| 27 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 28 | He was aping them to some extent , but what was different was that touching quality . ’ |
| 29 | He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago . |
| 30 | The ragged hole appeared in the beard again ; it occurred to me that the shrink was baiting me in some way , teasing me . |