Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was plump , placid , erotically drained Stuart beside me , looking so fucking … blithe , pretending it was nice to be met at the airport , and probably thinking about how he was going to claim back some Danegeld on the unused half of their return billets from Gatwick to Victoria . |
| 2 | The article , then , is exploratory rather than definitive , inciting theory rather than assuming it , attempting to open up some territory or to clear some ground rather than to fortify a final position . |
| 3 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 4 | I must say , the diplomatic bag works extremely fast in both directions , so we are managing to keep up some kind of dialogue : she was insistent that I get out of ffeatherstonehaugh 's as much as possible . |
| 5 | Whatever the wider influences the producers themselves were just experimenting , trying to cut costs and to standardize production , and trying to whip up some interest by injecting a little sensationalism into their films by sailing a little closer to the wind . |
| 6 | We 're trying to work up some passion for the pageant . |
| 7 | ‘ Who is it ? ’ she asked warily , her brain trying to work out some excuse if it was one of her friends . |
| 8 | For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , I 'm trying to sort out some transport for a couple of guests . |
| 10 | away because it 's wonderful to have another theatre , but , erm it 's just a bit maybe trying to draw up some method to do that . |
| 11 | I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that . |
| 12 | From here , it looks more like he 's trying to stir up some shit that 's already been stirred up too much by the neo-Nazis . |
| 13 | The great temptation , particularly after a good round , is to fly over the last fence and gallop through the finish invariably trying to make up some time over an easy fence . |