Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 2 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend will be aware that the commuters in Kent are looking for some advantages from the channel tunnel rail link . |
| 5 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 6 | at the minute , we 're waiting for some bits for this should be in today . |
| 7 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 8 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 11 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 12 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 13 | I 'm looking for some smokes to smoke . |
| 14 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 15 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 16 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 17 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 20 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 21 | He said he was coming for some gnocchi tonight . |