Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samsung has been collaborating with HP on some of the low-end PA 7100 widgets , which are ready to pop next month . |
| 2 | Samsung has been collaborating with Hewlett-Packard on some of the low-end PA 7100 machines , which are planned to appear next month . |
| 3 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 4 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 5 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 6 | Admittedly , they are training on behalf of some of the smaller firms , but it is in the interests of the industry . |
| 7 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 9 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 10 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 11 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 12 | There are a number of flights of steps and visitors will be walking on catwalks above some of the processes . |
| 13 | A spokesman said : ‘ The industry is highly fragmented and business will be growing through acquisitions for some time . |
| 14 | For example , a neighbour may ask ‘ what are you doing ? ’ and the elder can say ‘ I 've got to spend a penny , it 's these new tablets ’ , or ‘ I 'm going into town for some firelighters ’ . |
| 15 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 16 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 17 | They were going to London for some weeks : they have friends in high places , you know , and the eldest Miss Bretton-Fawcett , the daughter you know , is to come out next year . |
| 18 | When local environmental officers in Birmingham , UK , reported last year that surprising amounts of chemicals were migrating into food from some types of clingfilm , they were attacked by the packaging industry . |
| 19 | Extent is the number of people who will have the pleasures or pains , and it will be invoked when we are thinking in terms of some average effect on persons affected rather than of named individuals . |
| 20 | That 's why I despair when I read what is passing for news in some of the tabloids . |
| 21 | I 'll go there and kiss the stones , and I 'll go and kiss me old mother who is living in Dublin with some nuns . |
| 22 | While FCSI will be smaller and more flexible , FC/Open is aiming for membership of some 50 or 60 companies , 15% of which are end users . |
| 23 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |
| 24 | For I was shrieking with laughter at some of the unintentional one-liners and an alien about as terrifying as E.T . |
| 25 | He was acting as courier for some of his family 's purchases earlier in the year . |
| 26 | I was going to garden for some active therapy but when I got there I thought better of it . |
| 27 | Major Gibbs was waiting for Finlayson with some typed papers . |