Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 2 | If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent . |
| 3 | Nine pilots competed , the most for some years . |
| 4 | Oh , I know I 'm always on about some alternative or other . |
| 5 | There 's a documentary on about some disease . |
| 6 | As Blanche and Russell chatted on about some Woody Allen film , Dexter let his eyes glaze over . |
| 7 | Maisie , from deep inside her black linen bag , was muttering about how it was all right for some people . |
| 8 | He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves . |
| 9 | Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour . |
| 10 | There 's always talk like this , Anne , but it 's usually politicians just trying it on for some advantage . |
| 11 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 12 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 13 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 14 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 15 | This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 18 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 19 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 20 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 21 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 22 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 23 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 24 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
| 25 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 28 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 29 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 30 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |