Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 2 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 3 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 4 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 5 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 7 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 8 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 9 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 12 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 13 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 14 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 22 | Whatever the readers ' perception , Le Monde is changing and will go on doing so for some time to come . |
| 23 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 24 | After staring about for some time , they ran across to a little mound some way away and looked again . |
| 25 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |
| 26 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 27 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 28 | I had been happily chatting away for some time to my ‘ invisible ’ recorder before I realized I was not alone . |