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 . |