Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | We are looking forward to some good matches in Europe . ’ |
| 5 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to some really good rounds . ’ |
| 12 | Judging by the thickness of the file in front of me we are going to be working together for some little time yet . |
| 13 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |
| 14 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If the universe were expanding faster in some directions than in others , the intensity of the radiation in those directions would be reduced by an additional red shift . |
| 17 | Hence the reason sevens coaches Douglas Morgan and John Jeffrey were talking yesterday of some switches within the ranks , both in Canberra and in Fiji next week . |
| 18 | By the 1870's the entries had dwindled , or were missing altogether in some months . |
| 19 | An argument which pulls in the opposite direction is this : even when the government or a governmental agency is , for example , making contracts , it is doing so in some sense as representative of the citizenry at large and must bear the interests of the community as a whole constantly in mind . |
| 20 | John Regis , my arch rival at 200 metres , was walking home with some friends late one night when they were attacked by some white men who were obviously extremely drunk . |
| 21 | Rebecca was sifting restlessly through some of the papers in her in tray , and he went over to her . |
| 22 | Is that it , you were going really well then , I was looking forward to some more about that actually ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Well she was staying overnight at some wee girl 's house and I 'd say well that 's alright as long as you 're as long as , you know , that know the wee girl 's mother maybe , she 's a daughter a wee bit older than Lindsey herself who had the , but no this mother see she was divorced and going with these men and let her daughter stay out to half eleven , and Lindsey was , n was n't in her house till half eleven . |
| 26 | However , we can not be sure , for it is clear that from Mesolithic times onwards the frequency of brachycephaly was increasing continually in some parts of Europe . |