Example sentences of "[verb] to be [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the guests the Mamounia while the Shah was settling in were Henry , Count of Paris , the pretender to the French crown , who was finishing his memoirs there ; the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole , then a member of the coalition government of Rhodesia , but soon , like the Shah , to be swept away by revolution and Hassans friend , former King Simeon of Bulgaria , who was reported to be there on some business . |
| 2 | With the commitment the application and operating system developers are showing , DOS is going to be around for some time yet . |
| 3 | ‘ Looks like we 're going to be in for some pretty flamboyant fielding from the West Indies ’ |
| 4 | It appeared that we were going to be there for some time . |
| 5 | Which must mean that he intends to be there for some time . |
| 6 | So , I mean what I would suggest is er I do n't know is John anticipated to be off for some time do you think ? |
| 7 | The empty refrigerator and the absence of perishable food like bread and milk suggested that Stavanger had left expecting to be away for some time , but that conflicted with the pyjamas under the pillow in the bedroom , and the razor in the bathroom . |
| 8 | That does n't seem to be so at some stages it is a little difficult getting it over as a as a a retired person talking to someone who is facing redundancy about retirement . |