Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 3 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 4 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 5 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 6 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 7 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 8 | This was the last day of these services , and there is talk of reviving them at some time in the future but using modern Sprinter units . |
| 9 | Instinctively she ran a hand through her dishevelled hair , smoothing it into some kind of order . |
| 10 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
| 11 | A model of the language is created by training it on some text that is already available . |
| 12 | I 'm trusting you with some part of the background . |
| 13 | Although the technology was not microprocessor-based , and the events are now thirty years past , the study 's theoretical approach and empirical findings are of such interest and relevance that it is worth describing them in some detail . |
| 14 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 15 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 16 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 17 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 18 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 19 | Robert whirled round on his mother , suspecting her of some collusion with the child , but , with the wistful fondness of a woman who has finished with childbearing , Mrs Wilson was still gazing at the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 20 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 21 | An aggressive mob of youngsters had been closely dogging us for some time and , emboldened by our apparent failure to notice them or to quicken our pace , had begun throwing stones . |
| 22 | Because of the mismatch between processor and transput device speeds , we are led to consider uncoupling the devices from direct processor control and providing them with some degree of autonomy . |
| 23 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 24 | This book would not be complete without providing you with some information on the subject . |
| 25 | ‘ I would have written sooner , but I was afraid of getting you into some trouble . |
| 26 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |
| 27 | It may seem rather surprising to some that the Principal of Trinity College should be giving a lecture on fundamentalism and subjecting it to some criticism . |
| 28 | Oh buying it on some sort of |
| 29 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 30 | Indeed , she had been half expecting it for some time now . |