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

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1 That group progressed quite a lot that year , from being almost unteachable in the beginning , to being at least teachable , and I was getting some fair work out of them … but it was very time consuming .
2 I knew I was taking some rare old stick mentally , though .
3 I , I was expecting some forty year old white , well dressed , you know Conservative
4 Late one afternoon as I was packing some old boots I had begged with wet slack and tea leaves to use as fuel on the fire the door was flung open and Dad stumbled in .
5 I was doing some mental arithmetic , counting up what was in my wire basket , when I got a great dig in the backside .
6 I was doing some swift mental arithmetic , and the result was so crazy that I paused to rework the sums in my head .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 At first Jennifer remained silent , as if she was fighting some immense inner struggle , then quietly she began to explain .
11 It occurred to me first that she was playing some dangerous role — as in her old undercover days — perhaps trying to gain some sort of information or advantage .
12 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 .
13 This point had already occurred to Loretta , who was doing some rapid calculations .
14 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 .
15 It was as if it was harbouring some great consuming sadness and had lost the urge to live .
16 After the first sip he was wishing some awful fate on every Lioniser in the world .
17 He was nursing some secret or other …
18 She seemed fascinated by Benjamin as if he was telling some mysterious tale on a cold winter 's night and she was a spectator , not a party to it .
19 There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour .
20 It was Mark Spicer , the son of the Royal Bucks secretary , and he was earning some extra money during his time off from university .
21 Because he wanted to use it to locate carp and pike he was getting some fiery abuse .
22 When Charlie heard the news of victory he was training some raw recruits on a rifle range in Edinburgh .
23 I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission .
24 He was doing some other thing than dancing . ’
25 Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks .
26 Except that she had n't dreamt about Tony for the past three nights , so perhaps he was doing some good .
27 But if he was playing some bizarre game he was hardly likely to admit it .
28 There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical .
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