Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now .
2 I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same .
3 My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! ,
4 ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire .
5 Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other .
6 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 .
7 Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time .
8 I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time .
9 For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time .
10 Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now .
11 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 .
12 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 . ’
13 Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is
17 And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture .
18 ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’
19 I 'm trusting you with some part of the background .
20 Or will the Chief Secretary and his friends be sunning themselves in some tax haven by that time ?
21 I should think because I 'm doing something with some students shortly and then erm there 's somebody coming to see me at two so er
22 But I suggest that the human will be wetting itself for some time . ’
23 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 .
24 You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work .
25 I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’
26 ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now .
27 ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’
28 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 .
29 Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’
30 Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur .
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