Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 3 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 4 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 7 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 12 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 13 | It had been known for some time that relations between Stephenson and Villa were strained because of the player 's insistence on living in his home-town of Newcastle , and several clubs , keen to secure him , were watching the situation closely . |
| 14 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 15 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 16 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 17 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 18 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 19 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 20 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 21 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 22 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 23 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 24 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |