Example sentences of "be [v-ing] some [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt the publishers would claim that it was all in the pursuit of the greater truth , in the way that the slimy tabloids and the unspeakable Sunday Times do when they are parading some particularly unpleasant piece of gossip . |
| 2 | Pisa when they come forward , do n't be misled , are playing some very attractive football indeed . |
| 3 | I watched the strange smile on the American woman 's face — like the smile students wore in the movie-house at Toronto when they were watching some particularly syrupy moment from a corny trailer , extorted smiles , full of shame and self-consciousness , but the suppressed emotion sincere enough and shown unguarded in the darkness , except I was playing the voyeur . |
| 4 | If you are watching some highly developed dance form , or some elaborately staged drama , or listening to highly developed music , or looking at highly developed sculpture or painting , you have at least some given mode of access to each art . |
| 5 | Edward , at the same time and eight miles away , was dispensing some moderately expensive education to the Lower Fourth at Croxford House . |