Example sentences of "[v-ing] to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may certainly talk of animals , in the absence of speech , ‘ consciously intending ’ or being compassionate , both of which carry implications of understanding to some degree . |
| 2 | In the middle years of the 1790s Wordsworth observed what was happening to some of the cottagers and cared about it ; like a good journalist , he called attention to outstanding cases in The Female Vagrant and The Ruined Cottage . |
| 3 | But look at individuals , rather than averages , and you see interesting things happening to some of the peasants ' lives . |
| 4 | False cases offset under-reporting to some extent . |
| 5 | A group is basically a collection of individuals , contributing to some common aim under the direction of a leader , and who share a sense of common identity . |
| 6 | Its principal archival collection comprises records relating to some 140,000 charities . |
| 7 | Every carp water has ‘ known ’ fish that are caught regularly and are given handles relating to some physical peculiarity : so we have ‘ Nelson ’ ( one-eyed ) , ‘ Smallpecs ’ ( little fins ) , ‘ Gutbucket ’ ( self-explanatory ) and ‘ Basil ’ ( a fawlty-pounder ) . |
| 8 | An integral part of any theory of personhood concerns inner states of all kinds , and I shall be centring my discussion on indigenous ideas relating to some inner states important to the Chewong , an understanding of which , I shall argue , is necessary in order to understand their interpersonal behaviour and associated values . |
| 9 | TASK 6 required children to write instructions and explanations relating to some game familiar to them . |
| 10 | The former head of the Toko commodity trading company was arrested on Sept. 18 on charges relating to some £32,200,000 of fraudulent dealings involving fictitious futures contracts . |
| 11 | The plain fact is that some elements of the social charter would run the risk — indeed , would make it a real possibility — of this country returning to some of the trade union practices that did so much damage during the 1970s . |
| 12 | Values such as fairness , honesty , and integrity are values worth pursuing in themselves , and should not be shrugged off by reverting to some contervailing argument such as costs . |
| 13 | We might say that the decision in O'Reilly established an ‘ exclusivity principle ’ applying to some judicial review applications for declarations and injunctions . |
| 14 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |
| 15 | I grew up with the balance and sound of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Grosse Musikvereinsaal , and I must say , listening to some of Furtwängler 's performances recorded there , it still sounds good to me . |
| 16 | Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm listening to some music . |
| 18 | There seemed no stopping her and he felt as if he were listening to some of the most important information he had ever heard . |
| 19 | It is only morons like you who , after listening to some crazed lunatic spouting his thoughts , would follow such thoughts . |
| 20 | Sometimes he would merely sit on the Government bench , half listening to some minor debate , half wrapping his mind round the backgrounds and appearances of different members . |
| 21 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |
| 22 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 23 | It would probably be more fun than listening to some self-deceiving gilgul spin her miserable yam . |
| 24 | The little boy leaned his face to one side as if he was listening to some signal inaudible to mere mortals , and he whispered , ‘ I am going to destroy Malik . |
| 25 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 26 | No we 're not , I 'm listening to some music |
| 27 | cos they were listening to some |
| 28 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 29 | And they were wanting to Some of them anyway wanted to join the Portobello branch . |
| 30 | But it may not be enough according to some industry commentators . |