Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] be [verb] some " in BNC.
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1 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
2 | The driver seemed to be playing some kind of survival game with the girls of the Navimore School : he slowed down out of courtesy to the bus stop sign , but took it no further than that . |
3 | At that time , as George Orwell reflected , the campaign appeared to be exerting some impact upon British politics for , ‘ In England the Popular Front is only an idea , but it has already produced the nauseous spectacle of bishops , Communists , cocoa-magnates , publishers , duchesses and Labour MPs marching arm-in-arm to the tune of ‘ Rule Brittania ’ . |
4 | Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there . |
5 | By March 5 troops loyal to Saddam Hussein appeared to be achieving some success against the rebels . |
6 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |
7 | Lady Roscarrock seemed to be containing some inner pressure that was about to erupt . |