Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 3 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 4 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 5 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 7 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 9 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 10 | But recently , I 've been going through some changes . |
| 11 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 14 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 15 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 16 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 17 | ‘ I HAVE been portrayed as some sort of tyrant landlady . |
| 18 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 19 | Recently he has acted as consultant on the hit West End musical Miss Saigon ( transfer to Broadway expected soon ) , the story of a love affair between a GI and a Vietnamese bar girl which has been condemned by some critics as exploitative . |
| 20 | In Yip Kai-foon the Privy Council rejected the solution which has been adopted in some jurisdictions of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be more probable . |
| 21 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 22 | One pattern of language use which has been observed in some bilingual communities is that of reciprocal language use . |
| 23 | They were as follows : ( 1 ) there is a dispute or a difference between the parties which has been formulated in some way or other ( see 15.5 ) ; ( 2 ) the dispute or difference has been remitted by the parties to the person to resolve in such a manner that he is called on to exercise a judicial function ( see 15.6 ) ; ( 3 ) where appropriate , the parties must have been provided with an opportunity to present evidence and/or submissions in support of their respective claims in the dispute ( see 15.7 ) ; and ( 4 ) the parties have agreed to accept his decision ( see 15.8 ) . |
| 24 | The creamy bedroom carpet is echoed in the bathroom which has been furnished with some of the antique fixtures and fittings gleaned on Jake 's auction tours . |
| 25 | It is suitably complex to have taken 600 people five years to develop and succeeds its 10-year-old predecessor , R2 which has been installed in some 1,500 worldwide sites . |
| 26 | It is suitably complex to have taken 600 people five years to develop and succeeds its 10-year-old predecessor , R2 which has been installed in some 1,500 worldwide sites . |
| 27 | Missionaries found that the book , which has been translated into some 200 languages , had an equal success in Africa , Asia and the Pacific and that the appeal of the story of a pilgrimage was universal . |
| 28 | One of the most promising directions , which has been pursued by some large advertising agencies , and which has been extensively talked about , is so-called ‘ lifestyle ’ research . |
| 29 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 30 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |