Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Raggett , a businessman spearheading the effort , said : ‘ If I was to take some of these materials and technologies back to the Soviet Union , I would probably be breaking the law . ’ |
| 2 | No , I was using some , I was washing with a mouthwash in the morning . |
| 3 | ‘ I was eating some gnocchi with this Italian — I did n't say nookey . ’ |
| 4 | By now I was eating some of the bread from Reggane . |
| 5 | I was fired some years after the War after an altercation with Hymie . |
| 6 | I was remembering some of the facts I built up from the data you brought me . |
| 7 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 8 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 9 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 10 | I was given some repulsive food which , by the end of the second day , I trained myself to eat . |
| 11 | I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet . |
| 12 | One day , when we were back in London , I was reading some of his latest sonnets . |
| 13 | ‘ I was reading some people think AZT is a poison , ’ she says conversationally . |
| 14 | ‘ I was reading some rubbish in The Guardian … it 's almost as bad as The Observer … ‘ he said . |
| 15 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 16 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 17 | I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair . |
| 18 | I was getting some strength back in my voice . |
| 19 | That group progressed quite a lot that year , from being almost unteachable in the beginning , to being at least teachable , and I was getting some fair work out of them … but it was very time consuming . |
| 20 | Erm I thought that erm I , I mean I was getting some things that John has n't , has n't mentioned , erm when you mentioned the wife being there erm when you , when you were introducing the C C Q you then assumed that you would be coming back with recommendations |
| 21 | what , but , it 's about the Co-Op , I went to the Co-Op in me dream , nothing but have on , and I was getting some of them what must have been a monthly thing |
| 22 | cos I mean , that 's what prompted all this cos I was getting some information from my |
| 23 | The day that made the appointment to see and Co , Nick after coming out of that meeting with Nick , we called in at the office , myself and my wife , and whilst I was tidying some things up because I 'd got the remainder of the afternoon off , Charles ' wife said to my wife , my wife actually broke down in tears , and she says , What 's up ? |
| 24 | I knew I was taking some rare old stick mentally , though . |
| 25 | I , I was expecting some forty year old white , well dressed , you know Conservative |
| 26 | Late one afternoon as I was packing some old boots I had begged with wet slack and tea leaves to use as fuel on the fire the door was flung open and Dad stumbled in . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh well , you see , the truth of the matter is that dragons have never existed as you ( and , until I was poisoned some three months ago , I ) understand existence . |
| 28 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 29 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 30 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |