Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm well first , I mean I 'm sorry to hear you 're keeping some bad company Stephen bad news . |
| 2 | She must have thought she was using some magic password known only to the foreigners who drank this strange golden liquid in preference to kava . |
| 3 | I knew I was taking some rare old stick mentally , though . |
| 4 | I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission . |
| 5 | You could imagine you were prospecting some dark land and seeing camp fires , or signal fires , or fires that were the only known evidence of a hidden tribe . |