Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be [v-ing] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 2 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |
| 3 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |
| 4 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 5 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 6 | Koenig , a Silesian banker for whom Lutyens was doing some work . |
| 7 | I may say that my recovery is wholly due to your organisation 's producing some penicillin just in time , ’ she added . |
| 8 | ‘ It does indeed sound as if your father is having some kind of identity crisis . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps your father is having some sort of mid-life crisis … possibly all is not well . |
| 10 | Your nan 's missing some chocolate eclairs . |