Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 2 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 3 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 4 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 5 | I 'm writing to you with some good news from Pampers — for your baby , and your baby 's world . |
| 6 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 7 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never known such a miserable bride , ’ she went on , standing back and looking at me with some affection , but more disapproval . |
| 9 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |
| 10 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 11 | An awful suspicion was growing in her like some bizarre fungus from a tiny spore . |
| 12 | The physics classroom had a spiral iron staircase leading from it to some region inhabited only by science masters . |
| 13 | Anyway yes , Whit 's going to us at some stage and I will wander round town while he 's doing his talk and then transcribe it |
| 14 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ he enquired , obviously unhappy to have her looming over him like some avenging goddess . |
| 15 | The missing leg dropped down and kicked , and the officer threw the con man away , chattering at him in some dialect . |
| 16 | " You think I 'm an opportunist do n't you , latching onto you as some sort of meal-ticket . |
| 17 | She pointed to an area of the graphic that was expanding into other sections , eating into them like some strange , glittering kind of cancer . |
| 18 | She watched the way the wind filled it and felt the boat dig deeper into the water , moving under her like some wild creature straining against a leash . |
| 19 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 20 | It wrapped around her ankle , clinging to her like some fierce little animal . |
| 21 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 22 | All day this shadow grew in her mind and by the time school was over and she was running along the railway line , it seemed to be running behind her like some dark , winged creature . |
| 23 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
| 24 | Her heart gave a little lurch as she thought about running into him at some time , which she was bound to do . |
| 25 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 26 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |
| 27 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 28 | not talking to me for some reason . |
| 29 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 30 | She lay thinking about it for some time , then decided she had nothing to lose . |