Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are more independent , you 're contributing , not only helping and doing in the home but you 're bringing in some money as well . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I have a bunch of hoods lurking around some corner wanting ten thousand pounds that I have not got . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In this case , the shareholders are passing off some risk on to the manager . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it is lovely — very perfect , ’ and he took my hand to lead me out , rattling off some Arabic which was too fast for me to catch but not too fast for the friends with him . |
| 14 | Inside I saw Joseph Cotten on the phone , rattling off some scare story about the Monster that Ate the City . |
| 15 | I was worrying over some homework |
| 16 | In checking to ensure that your employers have striven to strike a fair balance , it could be worth asking whether they have considered drawing up some form of ‘ points table ’ or other grading system , by which the relevant matters can be assessed . |
| 17 | COOKING UP SOME FUN |
| 18 | Attempts to have the libel damages overturned have failed , but he 's still holding out some hope of keeping the family home . |
| 19 | Well you , all I heard was something about her sorting out some wool and |
| 20 | Con 's in the office , sorting out some business , but he wo n't be long . |
| 21 | The next day I was hanging out some washing and he walked past me . |
| 22 | At that moment , however , he heard a rabbit approaching down some run close by . |
| 23 | Gachot then spun after running over some debris from the Patrese/Moreno incident and the subsequent tyre stop cost him time . |
| 24 | He was running off some sort of three-page newsletter under a clenched fist wrapped in barbed wire masthead . |
| 25 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |
| 26 | Einstein proposed a box full of radiation with a clock-operated shutter , so arranged that it was open for a time At , letting out some radiation during this period . |
| 27 | Not with the head injuries , no , it was a group of the and he was coming out of the just coming out some pub down in Conasquay and he was these lads were all singing , apparently this is what happened anyway , they were all singing and you know making merry and he said , what are you all so cheerful about or something ? |
| 28 | You know he was cutting out some card |
| 29 | Then , as the young composer experiments at his consoles and keyboards , taking on some meat , becoming stronger , deeper . |
| 30 | The sound retreated , but still it was there , somewhere in the night , as if thrumming along some wire sunk in the ground . |