Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belgium , Holland , Norway and Sweden are producing some strong new designers of clothes , shoes and accessories . |
| 2 | It is clear that the stories are meeting some real , deep , need but one rarely has clues as to what that need may be or as to what is happening in the reader . |
| 3 | In doing so I am not suggesting that I am delineating some objective essence of classicism . |
| 4 | But these chaps down at Bootle on Merseyside — in fact the correspondent is a woman — are , one assumes , ordinary , helpful ( they are communicating some helpful information ) and hardworking people . |
| 5 | But they 're building some more are n't they , building another seven |
| 6 | And I do n't mean I 'm bending them , but there were some , as I 've said many times , a lot of silly people refereeing in speedway , and thank goodness now , ninety nine per cent of them are being sensible and we 're seeing some good refereeing . |
| 7 | Erm well first , I mean I 'm sorry to hear you 're keeping some bad company Stephen bad news . |
| 8 | okay so you 're you 're wanting some some feedback |
| 9 | ‘ You 're getting some real stuff for your money . ’ |
| 10 | have some more ham or you 're getting some nice cheese in a minute . |
| 11 | As designers dig ever deeper for traditional guitar designs ripe for modernisation , we 're getting some interesting-looking instruments . |
| 12 | They 're getting some more tomorrow are n't they ? |
| 13 | Yeah that he we 've just completed up here and one or two others er so we 're we 're getting some big boys in now . |
| 14 | Am I right in in thinking that we 're having some new speakers ? |
| 15 | If the silence lasts too long for you to feel comfortable , repeat the last thing the person just said or say , ‘ I 'm not sure how to read your silence ’ or ‘ Looks like you 're having some interesting thoughts -would you like to say anything about them ? ’ |
| 16 | We 're doing some new Metros . |
| 17 | So style what you were talking about when they base ideas , just concentrate on what you are doing cos you 're doing some good work you know when they base ideas on the past , that is looking back , yeah , like see this word retro , going back , right . |
| 18 | They 're doing some good things at weekend . |
| 19 | We 're doing some covering footage on a stretch of the river where there are some rapids , but the actual capsizing which is meant to happen there does n't really . |
| 20 | While we 're devising some interesting experimental parameters here 's a relatively basic test for hardware and software compatibility . |
| 21 | It 's the brusque boulevards of the imagination ; it 's that untaken , sauntering path between toupeed cottages ; it 's the trompe l'oeil cul-de-sac which bluffs you into the belief that you 're entering some smart avenue . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're playing some superb football but what is awesome is that we are getting better . |
| 23 | They 're working is through and they they 're playing some super little link up stuff . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Dave , you 're making some horrible noises eating . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Instead they expect us to believe that they are describing some consensual , authoritative standard of use . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ |
| 30 | They are getting some new designs in this morning , and I must see them before they are snapped up . ’ |