Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Q I am building some decking on to one end of my 10″ x 8′ x 3′ pond .
2 Yes I have , I mean , firstly my colleagues have been very supportive , and my company , Sea Search Editions , but the er local businesses , the other local businesses have started to respond and although I 've only put , I 've got piles of envelopes at home to deliver still , I am getting some success , I 'm rapidly getting near that 512 pounds .
3 Excuse me , ’ I said , ‘ I am cooking some meat . ’
4 I am having some trouble with my nitrate level , which is 40–50ppm .
5 When will I be given some responsibility ?
6 I 'm giving some instruction .
7 You ca n't possibly have got it into your head that I 'm having some kind of affair with Lexy , of all people .
8 I 'm having some difficulty working out where fences go because they 're obscured by these twenty foot wide er lines .
9 I 've just this minute got back to the flat and I 'm having some difficulty taking in your news . ’
10 Well I , I 'm having some difficulty in keeping my remarks addressed to question A and not drifting into question B because obviously Leeds City Council and perhaps speaking for the rest of West Yorkshire 's concerned about regeneration effects .
11 I think I 'm going some place but I ca n't remember where .
12 Those people I 'm do some revision okay ?
13 Erm so I 'm making some progress there .
14 I 'm doing some work on optical lenses with a high refractive index and I seem to have got some … er … thallium on my sandwiches … ’
15 I 'm working at the big hospital in Port au Prince , and I 'm doing some work for my book . ’
16 Shh shh I 'm doing some listening now .
17 I 'm doing some listening over here .
18 Cos I 'm doing some mobile , well I 'm hoping to get some mobile around Ruddington before it opens and so people can see me a bit before .
19 I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . "
20 After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food .
21 I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet .
22 I was reading some rubbish in The Guardian … it 's almost as bad as The Observer … ‘ he said .
23 At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation .
24 I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair .
25 I was getting some strength back in my voice .
26 cos I mean , that 's what prompted all this cos I was getting some information from my
27 I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity .
28 ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters .
29 As I say , it does n't bother me constantly all the time , Doctor you know , it 's just I feel I was carrying some shopping down the road
30 While I was making some tea there was a tremendous crash .
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