Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 2 | Or running round after some bloody male in an office . ’ |
| 3 | There he was in all his splendour , gazing blithely out of society-column illustrations , going into or coming out of some swank nightspot or other , with a gorgeous girl on either arm . |
| 4 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 5 | In the summer it had , of course , its share of visitors , but during the winter months , when half the cafés and shops were closed , most of the people one met were in bath chairs , or leaning heavily on some supporting arm . |
| 6 | But when she 's at home , Sue Lawley loves nothing more than getting down to some old-fashioned housework |
| 7 | You 're listening to B B C Radio Oxford and Talking Sport , seventeen minutes past five is the score , and hopefully we 'll be going back to White Hart Lane shortly and catching up with some of the players . |
| 8 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
| 9 | Many of the earliest public libraries were busily involved in adult education , providing lectures and discussion meetings , arranging exhibitions and displays , and going out with some of their stock to societies and schools and clubs in the most admirably proselytizing manner ; many actually had art galleries and museums under their care as well , providing an early example of multi-media provision . |
| 10 | Many are reacting by slimming their presence at shows drastically and pulling out of some altogether . |
| 11 | Gaston closed his eyes , as if wincing away from some unbearable memory . |
| 12 | They were expert at vanishing silently and reappearing suddenly in some unexpected place ; and in case of need the Lord Owen 's main stronghold of Glyndyfrdwy was no great distance away , mound and manor guarded by a curve of the Dee , down there to the south in the close confine of the valley . |
| 13 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 14 | Thirty years on , English is a large and entrenched subject , and there is no likelihood of putting the clock back , and starting again in some other way : my proposal for a division between Cultural Studies and a degree in poetry is a pragmatic proposal for a way out of current difficulties . |
| 15 | She has a miserable time , leaving home for a job in a club , escaping from reform school to hang out with drunken hoodlums and joining up with some soldiers for a bout of petty thieving that culminates in murder , and the film never allows one into the girl 's experience . |
| 16 | Fortified by the lull , Iraq 's President Saddam Hussein is consolidating his control at home and dabbling cautiously in some new adventures abroad . |
| 17 | She 's relaxed and responding well to some half-completed treatment , unconcerned about her hair loss . |
| 18 | But going back to some of these places you mentioned , were there any rocks that were given a name or stones ? |
| 19 | He paused , frowning while staring ahead at some of the other riders , then he said , ‘ Excuse me — I must stop them from taking the wrong track . ’ |
| 20 | Another casualty who bravely acted out that old maxim ‘ the show must go on ’ was ROSS — ex-postman and avid raver — from K-CLASS who after falling through a plate glass window whilst horsing about with some mates in a local Liverpool pub , gritted his teeth , 30 stitches notwithstanding , and gamely did his bit on Dance Energy less than 24 hours after being sewn up . |
| 21 | Gatting 's Faisalabad outburst is interpreted with a certain amount of knowing understanding , but Lillee , the Chappells , Lloyd , Holding , Croft , Richards , Greig and Miandad join him and many others in a category which should be cringeing when thinking back on some of its unsavoury behaviour . |