Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 5 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 6 | As far as identity is concerned , this does not involve looking primarily for some smug sense of having arrived at a particular social position . |
| 7 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 8 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 9 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 10 | He just stared into the dreadful dark depths of the old female 's shelter waiting hopelessly for some sign that she was alive . |
| 11 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 12 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 13 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 14 | Striving hard for some normality , she pulled her head back and told him , ‘ I d-did n't say a word to anyone about — about us . ’ |
| 15 | Whatever the readers ' perception , Le Monde is changing and will go on doing so for some time to come . |
| 16 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 17 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |
| 18 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 19 | I had been happily chatting away for some time to my ‘ invisible ’ recorder before I realized I was not alone . |
| 20 | Judging by the thickness of the file in front of me we are going to be working together for some little time yet . |