Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 2 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No arguing with that , thought Cadfael , looking on with some anxiety from his retired place . |
| 6 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 7 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 8 | Benedicta , cooler and more composed , was listening attentively to some story the nobleman was telling her , though now and again moving slightly away from him as if she had come to resent the young gallant 's attentions . |
| 9 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 10 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 11 | He said the alternative view was to take the standpoint of a fully-developed person looking back to some point marking the moment of creation . |
| 12 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 13 | We were looking forward to some exercise of rowing , but typically when we arrived , we found they had prepared a gondola-like craft ( of a kind emperors used to go in ) on which we were meant to sit and be gently punted around while we sedately drank tea . |
| 14 | Looking recently at some vintage notes on the early nineteenth century , I was struck by how many were classified as ‘ useless ’ , one ‘ the worst possible ’ and another ‘ so bad that proprietors in desperation left grapes hanging on vines ’ . |
| 15 | In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance . |
| 16 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 17 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 18 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 21 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 22 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 23 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Now , it 's going to be a bit scruffy this , and you just try and transcribe it onto that piece of paper so you 're going away with some idea . |
| 27 | It was possible she had never been in a tunnel before , except perhaps in a car going quickly through some underpass . |
| 28 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 29 | He just stared into the dreadful dark depths of the old female 's shelter waiting hopelessly for some sign that she was alive . |
| 30 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |