Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TML objected to Morton 's " abrasive " personal management style , and refused in mid-February to sign a document which would have allowed Eurotunnel to start drawing down some £400 million of additional funding for the project . |
| 2 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 3 | You are more independent , you 're contributing , not only helping and doing in the home but you 're bringing in some money as well . |
| 4 | Paris was first and despite a struggle to get off the ground , the company now has three operations bringing in some £200,000 a week . |
| 5 | Cotterell was writing in a mixed shorthand , spelling out some words and substituting personal symbols for others . |
| 6 | I think that er we are probably some years of and therefore whilst we make indulge our service in the next few moments it each other er we are eventually and then perhaps going through a convenient route er and thrashing out some sort of profit margin . |
| 7 | I have a bunch of hoods lurking around some corner wanting ten thousand pounds that I have not got . |
| 8 | We have also recorded the older generation in our own families — noticing how some things we knew went unmentioned , but also making some surprising new discoveries of our own family secrets . |
| 9 | Local conditions must go a long way to explaining why some villages were vulnerable to enclosure and others were not , and these variations could occur within the limits of a single shire . |
| 10 | The idea goes some way to explaining why some individuals with red cell mutations are immune to Plasmodium infection . |
| 11 | Maybe this attitude lingers on in advanced Western societies , explaining why some people still wax so lyrical about arcane grammatical rules , the Oxford English Dictionary and all the other magical authorities , and why they are so indignant about feminists ‘ tampering with language ’ . |
| 12 | On the other hand , we might have backed research aimed at understanding why some materials are insulators and why for example , adding small quantities of certain impurities to these materials has a dramatic effect on their conductivity . |
| 13 | Traditionally , these patterns repeat to infinity ; Makhoul sometimes underlines this by not filling in some areas completely , as if the picture could be carried on indefinitely . |
| 14 | Makhoul sometimes underlines this by not filling in some areas completely . |
| 15 | In archival terms these may then constitute some interim ‘ minutes ’ filling in some gaps to a major series . |
| 16 | He gladly accepted a lift back to Stromness on Venturous and repaid me by filling in some details for my report on the development of the terminal and the Piper Oil Field which would be supplying it . |
| 17 | More generally , efforts were made to reduce staff by limiting state functions or by privatization , i.e. by passing over some tasks to private contractors . |
| 18 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 19 | In this case , the shareholders are passing off some risk on to the manager . |
| 20 | He 's gone into Boots , he 's admitted to doing the offence erm picking up some perfume from the counter in Boots , put it in the basket then placed it into his bag |
| 21 | An alternative explanation is that the absence of dynamic homogeneity arises from using nominal asset stock measures ( in spite of the rationale for estimating in nominal terms outlined above ) with the dynamic nominal wealth terms picking up some inflation effect . |
| 22 | ‘ I was feeling pretty pleased with myself yesterday after picking up some awards in Harrogate , including one for a window display . |
| 23 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 24 | In general , there are many situations without a check in which enough of the energy of the returning hammer will be absorbed to prevent the hammer reaching the string for a second time , but not enough to stop the hammer bouncing up some way towards the string . |
| 25 | Greg turned in surprise and looked at Rachel who was sitting at her desk writing up some reports . |
| 26 | When I first knew them in those early London days , I 'd often find the Second Son picking out some phrase on the piano in our living room . |
| 27 | When Tuesday and Debbie were arguing with their Moms whether they should wear a strapless dress to the dance , she had been carving up gang-girls in warehouse arenas , then picking out some cock-for-the-night from the stud line . |
| 28 | I fancied seeking out some Synodontis for the new tank , and they are rather prone to burning their scaleless skin by trying to hide under a standard heaterstat . |
| 29 | The course was lengthened by pushing back some tees so as to comply with the Regulations on Handicapping , resulting in the Club having four recognised S.S. courses : White ( 70 ) , Yellow ( 69 ) , Green ( 68 ) and the L.G.U. Red ( 72 ) . |
| 30 | Role-play activities can inform other areas of the curriculum , for example history , through pupils ' pretending to be living in another age , or science , through their acting out some aspects of scientific discovery . |