Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are going to show candidates around then make sure there is someone to do it and that anyone whose work/routine might be affected has been given some advance warning . |
| 2 | The National Front leader , Jean-Marie Le Pen , has been given some ironic advice from members of his own party in the Riviera capital Nice . |
| 3 | I understand this has been given some serious consideration , but it has been decided not to proceed at present . |
| 4 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 5 | What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions . |
| 6 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 7 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 8 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 9 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 10 | What he really needs is to have some blond streaks to lift it a shade or two . ’ |
| 11 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 12 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 13 | What it must now do is issue some clear guidelines on the manner in which doctors involve themselves — directly or indirectly — in promoting unproved remedies to the general public . |
| 14 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 15 | One direction in which it may move is to replace some existing degree courses by two-year diplomas , though if this comes about it is not likely to be before the late 1980s . |
| 16 | All we have to do is send some nice flowers to each of his girlfriends . |
| 17 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 18 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 19 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 20 | He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 21 | If this had been the case I may possibly have been offered some cosmetic surgery , but this wo n't happen because it 's a natural part of pregnancy . |
| 22 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 23 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 24 | He admired his father-in-law 's farming ability and had been given some worthwhile advice whenever they had met . |
| 25 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 26 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
| 27 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 28 | Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer . |
| 29 | p.48 ) ; ‘ R. D. B. Fraser … had been doing some serious playing with three-chain models ’ ( ibid . |
| 30 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |