Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for some [noun] " 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 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 7 | She stood with it in her hand , looking about for some signs of a waiting servant . |
| 8 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 11 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 12 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 13 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 14 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 17 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 18 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 19 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 23 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 25 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 26 | He just stared into the dreadful dark depths of the old female 's shelter waiting hopelessly for some sign that she was alive . |
| 27 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought of going out for some choc bars , ’ he would say , adding sotto voce as his daughter ran for her anorak , ‘ and I thought we might drop off at the gym/piano teacher's/library on the way … ’ |
| 29 | look it does n't matter now because we 're going out for some milk , here |
| 30 | I just went through and said , " I 'm going out for some cigarettes , " and went out , and I 've never been back . |