Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 2 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 3 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 5 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 6 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 7 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 8 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 9 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 10 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 11 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 12 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 13 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 14 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 15 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 16 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 17 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 18 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 19 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 20 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 23 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
| 24 | A buy-in of shares may be the appropriate method of effecting a management buy-out where certain shareholders wish to realise their investment in a business which they have been running for some time , or they wish to retire , and there is a management team willing to continue with the business and become the new shareholders . |
| 25 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 26 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 27 | Because of its limited appeal among Grand Prix drivers , it has been ignored for some record purposes in the statistical section to be found at the end of this chapter . |
| 28 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 29 | It has been felt for some time that the procedure and forms relating to the granting of legal aid in criminal causes could be improved , and the introduction of legal aid in the District Courts has led to the position being scrutinised and a new procedure and application form introduced . |
| 30 | It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society . |