Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
2 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
3 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
4 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
5 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
6 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
7 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
8 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
9 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
10 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
11 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
12 | The process has been going on for some time . |
13 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
14 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
15 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
16 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
17 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
18 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
19 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
20 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
21 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
22 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
23 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
24 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |
25 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
26 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
27 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
28 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
29 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |