Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because you are using some hospital staff , remember . ’ |
| 2 | Q I am building some decking on to one end of my 10″ x 8′ x 3′ pond . |
| 3 | Excuse me , ’ I said , ‘ I am cooking some meat . ’ |
| 4 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 5 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 6 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 7 | Erm we are renumbering some points in that one , erm we were trying to avoid it before but I ca n't seem any way of avoiding it here because these are major new things . |
| 8 | And anyway there were no witnesses , though they are bringing some forward who will pretend to be . ’ |
| 9 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 10 | ‘ Getting away with it ’ , of course , means something only if the bats are adopting some kind of Tit for Tat strategy . |
| 11 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |
| 12 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 13 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 14 | The ‘ silent spring ’ predicted by Rachel Carson some 20 years ago has not arrived , even though global sales of pesticides last year totalled £7 billion ; but persistent organochlorine insecticides , such as DDT , are damaging some populations of birds , and chemicals sometimes destroy beneficial natural enemies and thereby actually create pests . |
| 15 | If you are a solicitor or an overseas lawyer wanting to be admitted to the English Bar ; if you are seeking some reduction of the normal pupillage requirements or certain other exemptions from the regulations ; if you are applying to become an employed pupil-master — you must apply to the Joint Regulations Committee ( JRC ) . |
| 16 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 17 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 18 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , John does suffer from a hearing defect which er causes him loss of hearing and apparently when he puts his hearing aid in the speakers are causing some interference and a whistle within his ear . |
| 20 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 21 | The committee also decided in future to pay the CAB quarterly grants in advance , rather than in arrears which has been causing some cash flow problems . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're building some shops here . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 're building some shops and a hotel there too . |
| 24 | And I only hope you 're bringing some money with you . ’ |
| 25 | We commission consultants who produced a report suggesting a southern route , but the northern route , the A41 route , is not ruled out , because we have n't made any proposals — so we 're looking some years down the road . |
| 26 | You have to , you 're getting some vouchers tonight |
| 27 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 28 | I mean the strain on families must be enormous in a strike situation and for both people in the family to be having an input and feeling that they 're getting some sort of feedback from the situation that it 's not just despair must surely you know be you know there 's that side to it and then erm from the women 's point of view I mean we have like I said become one big family in a way you know and the social side of the strike in a way you know people are sa you know going out more maybe and certainly |
| 29 | Erm , that is kids may express curiosity , kids may even be doing things that imply they 're getting some sort of pleasure out of their bodies y'know they may be , as we used to call it when I was a child , playing with themselves , um they may be erm doing various things that er that give them some sort of bodily pleasure . |
| 30 | say like we 're moving some equipment from one place to another |