Example sentences of "[pron] are [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good gracious , ’ she breathed , ‘ if you really do believe that Rob and I are conducting some sultry little affair , do you think that either of us would be fool enough to use an office which adjoins yours ? ’ |
| 2 | For older infants , who are taking some solid food , try cutting out different foods in turn , but replace them with others that are equally nutritious . |
| 3 | When you talk about racquet strings , you are talking some complicated and sometimes confused words . |
| 4 | In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) . |
| 5 | We are getting some terrible luck with injuries . ’ |
| 6 | I think I should point out , though , that erm , in the future , there will , we are planning some substantial drawings on our funds . |
| 7 | Yeah , we are doing some good . |
| 8 | They are getting some new designs in this morning , and I must see them before they are snapped up . ’ |
| 9 | But these chaps down at Bootle on Merseyside — in fact the correspondent is a woman — are , one assumes , ordinary , helpful ( they are communicating some helpful information ) and hardworking people . |
| 10 | they are laying some new fandangled pourous underlayer or summink ? |
| 11 | They are approaching some great metropolis . |
| 12 | Instead they expect us to believe that they are describing some consensual , authoritative standard of use . |