Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 3 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 4 | The vision of the vain , silly girl she had been seemed to accuse her in some obscure way . |
| 5 | I 'm going to leave you with some rhythm combinations of the 8th note triplet and 16th note triplet subdivisions . |
| 6 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 7 | There undoubtedly are cases of parents who exaggerate their child 's ills , and who are determined to blame them on some physical cause , when family . |
| 8 | Erm there 'll be seven lectures on this subject and that 's a fair number of course but it 's not enough to cover the full range of things that I 'd want normally to talk to you about and so what I 'm going to do is to aim to introduce you to some of the central concepts of foreign policy , of ways of analysing it , of the models that are used , the ideas erm er surrounding foreign policy and also to illustrate these with examples . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's going to harm me in some way , Leo . |
| 10 | As indicated above , the notion of a de facto authority depends on that of a legitimate authority since it implies not only actual power over people but , in the normal case , both that the person exercising that power claims to have legitimate authority and that he is acknowledged to have it by some people . |
| 11 | There was also fear that he was going to punish her in some unpleasant way for Jason 's actions , and other , deeper fears that even now she refused to acknowledge . |
| 12 | He was going to sell it to some Jew . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
| 14 | From what Morse said it looks as though he was trying to flog it in some under-the-counter deal , but I do n't see how it helps us . ’ |
| 15 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |