Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 31 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 32 | All she did was get some friends to help a friend , and now look what 's happened . |
| 33 | As I mentioned , you 've been getting some advocacy experience , although you might not have realized it , in litigation already . |
| 34 | Now obviously that requires a more precise working knowledge of newspapers and the other media , what they want , when and how they need it , what the sort of particular publication is , you 've been discussing some of that and we can perhaps go into some of that in , in a bit more detail a bit later on . |
| 35 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 36 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |
| 37 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 38 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 39 | The last thing she wanted was to have some overbearing man muscling in . |
| 40 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 41 | every time I look , turn round , she 's been visiting some aids patient |
| 42 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 43 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 44 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 45 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 46 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 47 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 48 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |
| 49 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
| 50 | Now what I 'd like to do this afternoon in the short time that we have is to outline some of the ways in which the British government is helping to meet the challenges of under development . |
| 51 | all they do is diddle some keys and it goes off to T S B and then it goes into your account , that 's the way it 's supposed to work |
| 52 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 53 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 54 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 55 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 56 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 59 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 60 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |