Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] some time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 2 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 3 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 4 | It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society . |
| 5 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 6 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 7 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 8 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |
| 9 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems . |
| 10 | I am deeply interested in the row that has been brewing for some time in the heat of the nuclear arms debate , and not only because the key figure is a friend of mine . |
| 11 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 12 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 13 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 14 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 15 | In 1987 , 233 had been admitted at some time into the prison hospital . |
| 16 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 17 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |