Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Later , when we 're talking some more about the Playboy pictures , I wonder if they are in a similar vein to Madonna 's upcoming book of fantasy photos , the imaginatively titled Sex . |
| 32 | Dave , you 're making some horrible noises eating . |
| 33 | Steer clear of thick heavy mountain boots , as your feet will tire easily , unless you 're planning some serious winter walking where you might need to use crampons . |
| 34 | Instead they expect us to believe that they are describing some consensual , authoritative standard of use . |
| 35 | In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) . |
| 36 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 37 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 38 | Good gracious , ’ she breathed , ‘ if you really do believe that Rob and I are conducting some sultry little affair , do you think that either of us would be fool enough to use an office which adjoins yours ? ’ |
| 39 | They are getting some new designs in this morning , and I must see them before they are snapped up . ’ |
| 40 | We are getting some terrible luck with injuries . ’ |
| 41 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 42 | I am doing some part-time and short-term work for a charity — difficult on lots of scores ( ! ) . |
| 43 | I am doing some special strengthening work that has been recommended and that hopefully will bring about recovery and will make surgery unnecessary . |
| 44 | p.48 ) ; ‘ R. D. B. Fraser … had been doing some serious playing with three-chain models ’ ( ibid . |
| 45 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 46 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 47 | The boffins behind Double Glazing are devising some simple to execute routines that will test the compatibility of your mix of hardware and software . |
| 48 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 49 | Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer . |
| 50 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 51 | Up to 10 per cent overweight and exercise occasionally If you are a little overweight for your height and are doing some moderate exercise each week , but agree that it 's not really optimum and you could be doing a lot better , you need to follow an " improver " programme . |
| 52 | Yeah , we are doing some good . |
| 53 | Meanwhile , Paul Nicholas is still posing for pictures , the musicians are doing some last minute rehearsals and the sombre looking safety men continue to look grim . |
| 54 | There is no power of arrest under the section , so that arrest is available only where the general arrest conditions of PACE are satisfied , or the disrupters are committing some other arrestable offence . |
| 55 | They are approaching some great metropolis . |
| 56 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 57 | The American military had indeed been giving some some tentative thought to the use of atomic weapons in response to the Chinese victories in Korea . |
| 58 | It can cause problems if patients ' case records are held at the place from which they went on leave of absence , but they are being seen for review elsewhere or are attending some other facility such as an out-patient clinic or a day hospital . |
| 59 | Cheryl 's been saying some odd things . |
| 60 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |