Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had sounded almost as though the tunnel itself were enjoying some deeper , darker joke whose significance not even his father had fully understood . |
| 2 | One morning of diagonal sleet and frozen puddles we were unloading some Jewish families at a rude hamlet on the River Bug . |
| 3 | They rapidly erected the Clifton ironworks near Glasgow and early in the following year were producing some 600 tons of finished malleable iron products per month . |
| 4 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 5 | By mid-way through the four-day London Original Print fair ( the eighth ) a number of dealers were reporting some encouraging results , and by the close of the event every participant had made a sale . |
| 6 | Julia , delighted to see that the affection between them was solid enough to allow such teasing , said , as though she were considering some knotty legal problem : |
| 7 | The shuriken skaters of Sagramoso City were swift — if inclined to capricious flourishes and virtuoso displays , as though recognizing that the Scouts were providing some destructive harassment , but ultimately posed no major danger . |
| 8 | You could imagine you were prospecting some dark land and seeing camp fires , or signal fires , or fires that were the only known evidence of a hidden tribe . |
| 9 | Although his brainwaves were doing some interesting things on the printouts , Dr Groome had monitored no major trauma . |
| 10 | He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox . |
| 11 | To Captain Cochin on the Mort Homme , it seemed as if the two artilleries were playing some idiotic game with each other , to see which could cause the most damage to the two unhappy lines of infantrymen . |
| 12 | Haslemere were playing some good football and almost went further ahead when Whiston headed just over . |
| 13 | I had n't realised how bad things were until the children were playing some complex fairy-tale game . |
| 14 | He thought police were playing some elaborate game of cat and mouse and waiting to trap him . |
| 15 | He nodded a greeting to the other three visitors , who crowded into the cell as if they were playing some bizarre game of sardines . |
| 16 | It looks as if they were making some slight effort of their own up here to maintain the quality of life . |
| 17 | You were making some interesting conversation about me killing somebody just now . |
| 18 | If the adventurers are successful in picking the lock , this trap wo n't be activated , but they will have to be very careful taking out the money without breaking the glass sphere ( no test needed , but you should roll dice as if you were making some secret test just to scare the players ) . |
| 19 | He giggled girlishly , as if he were contemplating some impromptu lobotomies , and the beard , which flowed down over the steering wheel , rustled suggestively in the hollow socket of the speedometer . |
| 20 | She was producing some 100,000 rifles a month ; many more were received from her allies ; and hundreds of thousands of recruits had been enlisted and partly trained . |
| 21 | Display manager John Birch said the complaint could have arisen because the store was using some male dummies for the first time in several years . |
| 22 | She must have thought she was using some magic password known only to the foreigners who drank this strange golden liquid in preference to kava . |
| 23 | He was nursing some secret or other … |
| 24 | I think Lady Eleanor was nursing some secret but she would tell no one . ’ |
| 25 | Sitting on a carved stool on the hearthrug , holding forth like the Ancient Mariner , Haverford was bringing some long anecdote to a conclusion . |
| 26 | It would seem so after we received a phone call from a North Wales resident who was bringing some American pals over to our fair city to sample some entertaining nights out in Liverpool . |
| 27 | The new ramp at Bracknell draws away any half-way decent vert skaters that were still skating Farnborough except the Fleet skaters , in particular Mike Bews who was keeping some old Farnborough traditions going with some hard core skating . |
| 28 | When this song failed to make the impact she clearly expected it to make , she turned to Henry as if she was addressing some Yugoslav peasant and did a lot of the kind of lip and tongue work she had used on Elke , their one and only au pair . |
| 29 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 30 | When Charlie heard the news of victory he was training some raw recruits on a rifle range in Edinburgh . |