Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] 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 looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched .
5 I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters .
6 I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’
7 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 .
8 But recently , I 've been going through some changes .
9 I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh !
10 THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market .
11 ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage .
12 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 .
13 I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered .
14 But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’
15 For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries .
20 Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them .
25 ‘ 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 .
26 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 .
27 It is clear that he has been speaking for some time .
28 He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller .
29 The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC .
30 I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics .
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