Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] for some " in BNC.

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1 Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now .
2 I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same .
3 Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other .
4 Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time .
5 Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time .
6 I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time .
7 For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time .
8 Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now .
9 Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’
10 Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time .
11 To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically .
12 IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all .
13 They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is
14 And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture .
15 ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’
16 When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’
17 You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work .
18 I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’
19 ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now .
20 ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’
21 Right , now what I 'd like to do now is ask you for some of your , some names of friends of yours who , who I could go through the same process with them and , and establish their financial security for them too .
22 Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’
23 Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future .
24 ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour .
25 By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July .
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