Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] some of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 2 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 3 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Murtach and the others are going round some of the outlying tenants now , to ensure they came to no harm . ’ |
| 5 | These 14-year-olds are doing just some of the variety of jobs done by teenagers that are either illegal or just terribly underpaid . |
| 6 | Wo n't it be pulling up some of that sludge through the chiller and if we do n't |
| 7 | ‘ I shall be sorting out some of the applications for Miss Grimes 's job this morning , ’ Mervyn said . |
| 8 | At the same time , the children are learning to control them and are finding out some of the properties of a circle . |
| 9 | In physics terms it is using up some of its energy of motion ( its kinetic energy , as we say ) in doing work against gravity in climbing the hump . |
| 10 | That 's how much memory you had , to start with , three hundred and twenty thousand bytes and that 's how much you 've got left , two hundred and eight thousand bytes i if you 've got a spreadsheet in memory so it 's using up some of the memory . |
| 11 | ‘ A botanical illustrator who 's retired here is filling in some of the gaps in our plant and tree records . |
| 12 | Jean-Pascal Delamuraz , Switzerland 's economy minister , is sweeping away some of the 20-odd price-fixing ‘ conventions ’ , a Swiss euphemism for cartels , that have stifled competition in the domestic market for the past half-century . |
| 13 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 14 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems Inc , which two months ago was hiring back some of its old lieutenants , has up and laid off all its vice-presidents and managers except for its engineering chief , and will close down all but its Russian and its headquarters operations , Unigram reports . |
| 15 | Pick Systems Inc , which two months ago was hiring back some of its old lieutenants ( UX No 420 ) , has up and laid off all its vice presidents and managers except its engineering chief reportedly without notice or severance and will close down all but its Russian and headquarters operations . |
| 16 | As I helped myself to a cigarette from the depleted pack I was turning over some of what he 'd told me . |
| 17 | He was running over some of these in his mind when Dandelion appeared . |