Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 2 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 3 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 4 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 5 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 6 | Now , it 's going to be a bit scruffy this , and you just try and transcribe it onto that piece of paper so you 're going away with some idea . |
| 7 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 8 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 9 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |
| 10 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 11 | We were looking forward to some exercise of rowing , but typically when we arrived , we found they had prepared a gondola-like craft ( of a kind emperors used to go in ) on which we were meant to sit and be gently punted around while we sedately drank tea . |
| 12 | If the universe were expanding faster in some directions than in others , the intensity of the radiation in those directions would be reduced by an additional red shift . |
| 13 | Hence the reason sevens coaches Douglas Morgan and John Jeffrey were talking yesterday of some switches within the ranks , both in Canberra and in Fiji next week . |
| 14 | By the 1870's the entries had dwindled , or were missing altogether in some months . |
| 15 | An argument which pulls in the opposite direction is this : even when the government or a governmental agency is , for example , making contracts , it is doing so in some sense as representative of the citizenry at large and must bear the interests of the community as a whole constantly in mind . |
| 16 | John Regis , my arch rival at 200 metres , was walking home with some friends late one night when they were attacked by some white men who were obviously extremely drunk . |
| 17 | Benedicta , cooler and more composed , was listening attentively to some story the nobleman was telling her , though now and again moving slightly away from him as if she had come to resent the young gallant 's attentions . |
| 18 | However , we can not be sure , for it is clear that from Mesolithic times onwards the frequency of brachycephaly was increasing continually in some parts of Europe . |