Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] some [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 7 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |