Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 2 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 3 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 4 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 5 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 6 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 7 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 8 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 9 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 10 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 11 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 13 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 14 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 15 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 16 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 17 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |
| 18 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 19 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 20 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |