Example sentences of "i have [be] [verb] [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 felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
5 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
6 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
7 | 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 . ’ |
8 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | But recently , I 've been going through some changes . |
11 | 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 ! |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
16 | ‘ I HAVE been portrayed as some sort of tyrant landlady . |
17 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |