Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies . |
| 2 | I was just catching up on some paperwork . |
| 3 | At any instant the production of small eddies is thus occurring vigorously in some places and only weakly in others . |
| 4 | He was just looking round for some quiet corner to put the case when faintly above the noise in the room he heard the doorbell ring . |
| 5 | Going for a walk , arranging to meet a friend , or just getting on with some DIY , hobby , or relaxation exercises are all likely to occupy the mind more effectively . |
| 6 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 7 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 8 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 9 | It was not surprising that Benny had been as excited as a hen walking on hot coals all summer long , never able to keep still , always jumping up with some further excitement . |
| 10 | Yet despite a steady growth in its audience , the HGO is now running up against some very hard economic realities . |
| 11 | He was never happier than when watching Morse come face to face with a mystery : it vas like watching his chief tackle some fiendishly devised crossword ( as Lewis had often done ) , with the virgin grid on the table in front of him , almost immediately coming up with some sort of answer to the majority of the clues — and then with Lewis himself , albeit only occasionally , supplying one blindingly obvious answer to the easiest clue in the puzzle , and the only one that Morse had failed to fathom . |
| 12 | That meant no dancing , just hordes of people staying long enough to see and be seen , then passing on to some other entertainment . |
| 13 | She was due for a snack at three , followed by another blood-sugar reading , and Belinda had planned to spend the time until then reading up on some aspects of prenatal care that she felt hazy on . |
| 14 | Its entrepreneurs ranged the globe and with them went the cadre of ( mostly British and Irish ) foremen , skilled workers and elite labour ; sometimes settling down in some foreign country for good , their children becoming the Anglo-Argentines of the next generation , sometimes moving from country to country like the much less numerous oilmen of our days . |
| 15 | I failed to play a tape throughout the weekend of a drill relentlessly droning away in some shelfless room out of sight . |
| 16 | However , Beinn Alligin provides no such logistical problems and it 's a fabulous start to the walk up the Abhainn Coire Mhic Nobuil through a forest , again passing close to some splendid waterfalls , before you veer off to the left and head towards the dauntingly steep corrie that is the most direct route to the summit . |
| 17 | I had been happily chatting away for some time to my ‘ invisible ’ recorder before I realized I was not alone . |