Example sentences of "have been [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 61 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 62 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 63 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 64 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 65 | The Prince was sitting quietly there , his hands clasped , staring down at the table , so silent he could have been taken for some studious monk ; his robes , however , were splendid , his fingers covered in precious rings , and his hair and golden beard carefully combed and oiled . |
| 66 | His eyes gleamed with what might have been taken for some inner illumination . |
| 67 | They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students . |
| 68 | It is one of the most substantial ( 371 pages ) reconsiderations of the man and his music to have been published for some time and , although it is not easy reading , it is a stimulating book which opera producers in particular should keep handy . |
| 69 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 70 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 71 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 72 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 73 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 74 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 75 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 76 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 77 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 78 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 79 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 80 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 81 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 82 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 83 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 84 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 85 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 86 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 87 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 88 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 89 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 90 | This placed an unfortunate obstacle in the path of the police who might otherwise , simply on the grounds of suspicion , make a ‘ clean sweep ’ of all known criminals — a policy that had been advocated for some years by Matthew Davenport Hill , the Recorder of Birmingham — as a sure means to guarantee the safety of the streets . |