Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 2 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 3 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 4 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 7 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 8 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 9 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 12 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 13 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 14 | Worse still , the dish has probably been cleaned out with some form of modern detergent . |
| 15 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 16 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 17 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 18 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 19 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 20 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 21 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 22 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 23 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 25 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 26 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 27 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 28 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 29 | At the year end the combined membership reached 308 thus exceeding the magic 300 , yet the trading surplus was only £15 , with a mere £130 on capital account , although new greens at the 6th and 8th had been laid out at some cost . |
| 30 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |