Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 2 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 3 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 4 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 5 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 6 | Although there may have been surviving some notion of the tradition of ordered government from the ancient world , in actuality Rome had no strong , centralized government since classical times . |
| 7 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 8 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 9 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 10 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 11 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 12 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 13 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , George O'Dowd , the former Blitz cloakroom attendant , had been making some progress of his own towards the altar of fame . |
| 15 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 16 | As ruler of Aquitaine Henry felt that it was his duty to impose a settlement , but in recent years Louis VII had been showing some interest in this region , which lay on the route between Paris and Toulouse . |
| 17 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 18 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 19 | I 've been giving some thought to the content of the next magazine with which I hope you can help . |
| 20 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of our magazine Rural Wales / Cymru Wledig , and I would like to persuade you to contribute the next Comment Column ( see page 2 of the magazine ) . |
| 21 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of Rural Wales/ Cymru Wledig , and to the contribution you could make . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been giving some thought to our — problem , ’ he stated . |
| 23 | Alexei Pavlov , a marketing manager with the Ukraina Bank and Slava Tkatchenko , head of international payments at Gradobank , have been spending some time at Girobank to see how UK banks operate . |
| 24 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 25 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 26 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 27 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 28 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |