Example sentences of "[pron] is [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Miss Anthony 's London agent tells me : ‘ Lysette is filming The Hour of The Pig , in France , at the moment and it is true she is discussing some forthcoming projects , but I can not tell you what they are . ’
2 A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine .
3 The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes .
4 And — in collaboration with AEA Petroleum Services — it is converting some selected microcomputer software to run on multiple workstations . ’
5 If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution
6 has become an increasingly dangerous on this right hand side I have said just now they must try and stop this coming in because he is getting some magnificent balls in to the penalty area and sooner or later they 're gon na concede a goal .
7 He is playing some long-lost avant garde tape and he is scowling at his sandwich .
8 At sunset , with the sky red and the road wet after a day of storms , he is approaching some great metropolis .
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