Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 Peter Thompson reviews what 's happening and offers some timely advice .
2 For we have already seen that there is no reason why , along with the mature elements of the superego which serve the interests of adjustment to reality , immature , primitive elements should not also become externalized in those aspects of the state which represent it as nurturing , protecting and providing some measure of wish fulfilment for the most regressive desires .
3 People say that if I get a couple of days off I should go out driving and find some big old manor to stay in .
4 ( 2 ) It is an obtaining of services where the other is induced to confer a benefit by doing some act , or causing or permitting some act to be done , on the understanding that the benefit has been or will be paid for .
5 George Underwood : ‘ When we arrived , everyone was rather dressed up and we wore jeans , we were rather shabby looking and got some funny looks .
6 When are you gon na give up smoking and save some
7 This required a knowledge of the theory of numbers and geometrical design , of singing and playing some musical instrument , of composing poems , of dancing , fencing and sword play , as well as of practising the fashionable sports and pastimes .
8 How he had been Juan something living in a Mexican pueblo before the Apaches came raiding and took some of the women and children .
9 Some work has taken place , mainly tree removing , but we have also started labelling and stacking some of the parapet stones .
10 One day I decided to test out these facts by catching and measuring some of our local birds .
11 This suggests a number of avenues which historical and aesthetic research might pursue , or at least it offers a way of organizing and disciplining some intuitions .
12 It is then not so much the distinction between names and descriptions as the distinction between the function of naming and the function of describing that gives some indication as to what is involved in positing something as an ontological existent .
13 Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute .
14 ‘ I 'll have to tell me missis about that trick , and tell her to get going and save some money …
15 Every striker we 've got in the club is going and doing some finishing now ; you can hear them going .
16 The previous night I had got carried away , talking at length to the press and television when I should have been back in our quarters calming down , relaxing and getting some sleep .
17 Kanazawa Industrial University has 34 of the tiny automatons fetching and replacing some 2000 video and 1000 audio tapes for its 4500 students .
18 I was wondering whether to put some fuchsia .
19 ‘ I was just wondering whether to have some more milk , that 's all , ’ she lied , ‘ and I 'm not scared either . ’
20 This research demonstrates the need to take all referrals seriously and questions how feasible it is to prioritize child abuse referrals by source in deciding whether to investigate some more urgently than others .
21 For sure then , the post/modern , in dismantling and displacing some of the ideological formations of the Enlightenment , Romanticism , and modernism , finds itself in a paradoxical but illuminating relationship with the early modern .
22 And can you join me for a bit of breaking and entering some time this evening ? "
23 In the meantime , I 'd really like to hear from any of you ( especially with a fully-fledged article and/or some pictures ) who have specialised in a large coldwater community set-up , preferably mixing and matching some of the more unusual species such as Sunbass , Weather Loach , Miller 's Thumb , Rainbow Dace , or Jordanella — the list is long .
24 Childline North West , which will be officially launched later this month , is already up and running and receiving some 300 calls a day .
25 Later he organised two workshops which involved the pupils creating and performing some of their own stories .
26 Collecting and cleaning some types of plastic for recycling uses more energy than making new plastic .
27 The military involvement of England in continental war meant an unusually high concern for achieving and maintaining some measure of control of the sea .
28 That one line was an example of the writing and rewriting that made Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em such a success .
29 It 's important that home owners are recognizing that there is an over- provision of residential care in the county , and that they are responding and diverting some of their resources , or discussing how they may well , er , divert some resources into home based er , packages of care .
30 There will also be short talks by academic and industrial speakers on assessing and tackling some of the educational problems and it is proposed to distribute a compilation of laboratory scripts from participants .
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