Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 2 | I looked up and the light was shining through some leaves across his face . |
| 3 | In one of those asides , Johnson with the eye of a painter gives the last glimpse of these high ways in 1773 : ‘ Once we saw a corn field , in which a lady was walking with some gentlemen … ’ |
| 4 | There was one large stone farmhouse , outside which a small dark-haired girl was playing with some kittens by an empty farm-cart . |
| 5 | The woman Assassin was running through some muscle exercises , using her enhanced body sense to tense and untense . |
| 6 | Particularly because it was only now , when he was so close to her , that every cell of her body was reacting in some primordial , incomprehensible way to his nearness , to the sheer magnetic pull of his very commanding presence , that she had become aware of the fantasy that had consumed her . |
| 7 | As a result over-capacity was running at some 10 million tonnes a year and coal stocks ( including the 10 million tonne national coal reserve to safeguard West German energy supply ) were reaching levels of well over 30 million tonnes . |
| 8 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 9 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 10 | Until he got Jackson 's note he had been convinced that the man was suffering from some sort of regular illness . |
| 11 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 12 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 13 | The idea of two particles so near in mass was troubling for some people and made them wonder if some misinterpretations had occurred ; in particular Patrick Blackett , another Nobel Laureate , raised a question as to whether there might be other explanations of the pion decay . |
| 14 | His mam was dying of some rare disease which no doctor could cure and always , but always , proved fatal . |