Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking at some last night and they had erm privately owned cottages or |
| 2 | This is actually tying this up with an exam question , I was looking through some past papers to try and spot things we may not have covered in detail . |
| 3 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
| 4 | I can well believe that at home I was going through some such process for many years before I became anorexic , as well as during the course of the disease itself . |
| 5 | and er , I said what you mean Charlie , cor all dog 's mess all over the place , I said it is n't , I , I said have you ever been and he said no I , I said well there you are , I said if you have n't been I said you do n't know what it 's like , I said you 're talking about some old girl that lives on , in Little Sandhurst , who 's got a thing about dogs and I said kicking up a lot of fuss about it , but I said the women 's a dam liar |
| 6 | Hugh began , but Molly was already up and almost running down the stone steps as if she were hurrying towards some long-planned assignation . |
| 7 | Offically the new job starts in September , but for now she 's getting in some valuable practice as acting head , while the current Head Boy takes his exams . |
| 8 | She she 's working on some poxy thing ! |
| 9 | If she 's crying for some other reason like because we 've been quarrelling and she wants to make up but does n't know how to I just put my arms round her and cuddle her and let her cry it out . |
| 10 | She was acting like some idiotic schoolgirl , not an intelligent woman , she thought in exasperation . |
| 11 | Then it became apparent that she was holding to some other lodestar . |
| 12 | It was almost as if she was suffering from some dreadful disease that could only be cured by his physical removal . |
| 13 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 14 | Groaning as if in physical pain , she rocked herself back and forth in her chair — her teeth bared as if she was grimacing at some diabolical joke . |
| 15 | Well , I 'eard — well , someone told me you was lookin' after some poor tart that 'ad 'urt 'er leg , an' young Linda said so . |
| 16 | WE are looking for some one-cap wonders of soccer this week with a query that wins £25 for Mr F. Stillwell of Basingstoke . |
| 17 | We are helping with some specific problems that will occur in the run-down , such as the expansion of the former military hospital at Dharan . |
| 18 | Stockton Borough Council leader Bob Gibson said : ‘ We are working on some excellent and imaginative schemes ’ . |
| 19 | Now , in most of our utterances , the word acrobatic is obviously unlikely to appear at all ; and this holds good even when we are talking of some fine physical performance , on the one hand , or of acrobats and their activities , on the other . |
| 20 | We 're asking for er communication back with the ship and we 're asking for some straightforward answers from them . |
| 21 | Personality disorders are conditions where the individual 's whole personality appears to be permanently warped rather than that they are suffering from some actual illness at any given time . |
| 22 | ( They are standing on some windy street corner , say . ) |
| 23 | they have large pans , but even they were looking for some large pans ! |
| 24 | Was it possible that Hurley had forgotten to tell him they were putting in some decent professional equipment at last ? |
| 25 | He went on dreamily , as if he were speaking of some Homeric adventure . |
| 26 | The United States is particularly vulnerable in this respect , both because it is lacking in some valuable resources , and because its vast productive machine uses so much of everything . |
| 27 | As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm . |
| 28 | He jibed that ‘ maybe it is waiting for some cross-shareholding agreements ’ with Bundespost Telekom . |
| 29 | Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns . |
| 30 | LOOKING like he is appearing in some designer-conscious jeans advert , Nicholas Cage steps out of a big white gas guzzler on a sun-baked road in Wyoming . |