Example sentences of "being [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the galley , Harry had his first meal for six days , before being given some bread and butter and cigarettes and being advised to return in two days , just before the ship sailed . |
| 2 | I remember being given some caviar once when we were in Russia — wrapped in newspaper because they had no containers to put it in ! |
| 3 | They may therefore approach the post-assessment consultation in the expectation of being given some definite information regarding the child 's difficulties and the likely prognosis . |
| 4 | This may require the parents being given some special activities to be carried out each day , or it may involve more general and less highly structured activities , such as looking at books or playing with toys . |
| 5 | ‘ Demand was so good that it expanded from there , and George was happy to act as consultant , in return for being given some ground space at Ramsey to grow on Bonsai — his current passion . ’ |
| 6 | Do you see yourself as being given some sort of payment , eh ? |
| 7 | The Minister will recognise that lone parents are being given some useful assistance under the ’ children come first ’ proposals , in the form of a reduction from 24 to 16 hours in the full-time working week . |
| 8 | In nineteen eighty three from nineteen fifty three after thirty years of making cheese , they changed his job , I think many of you are ahead of me already , he said I was given a job change and I began working in landscaping , how nice while being interviewed some time ago I was asked what I thought about being giving a job change after thirty years of making cheese and he said well it did n't bother me , I noted , frankly because I did n't like making cheese anyway |
| 9 | Could this be the same Conservative Celebrity Cookbook that is being remaindered some would say almost given away in Dresser 's ? |
| 10 | The toad had the appearance of a fat businessman being done some sexual service by a hard-faced girl on the make and doing his best not to notice . |
| 11 | Pollen evidence shows that even in the Amazon basin , maize was being grown some 6000 years BP and that there was forest clearance a thousand or possibly three thousand years ago at Lake Victoria in Central Africa . |
| 12 | My Fellow Tablers , I will never ever forget how proud I was to say those words , Fellow Tablers , my first as a Tabler after being inducted some thirteen years ago . |
| 13 | Roirbak had the absurd impression he was being offered some kind of religious icon . |
| 14 | I spent the rest of the morning being shown some of the routine duties of a catering assistant . |
| 15 | In 18 patients the operation had been a two stage procedure with a covering ileostomy being closed some three months after primary surgery while in five patients a one stage restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir was performed with the ileal reservoir becoming functional at the time of proctocolectomy . |
| 16 | ‘ Now is n't that sweet — and just like you , ’ her mother replied , without knowing it making Fabia cringe with shame that she too was being served some of the deception she was practising . |
| 17 | With all the cat rods out we returned to the carp rods and decided to start fishing with sweetcorn and luncheon meat all on straight running leger rigs , the idea being to get some indication of any activity early on . |
| 18 | In Sumatra , the northern highlands seem to have been begun to be cleared about 17500 BP but the firmest evidence is from 6200BP , while the central regions may have begun being cleared some 7500BP but certainly by 4000BP ; both areas had major clearances by 2500BP , perhaps associated with irrigated rice culture . |