Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] some [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hell , the first time we met you were bringing in some by-hand-of-bearer letter telling us we were trying to depose the monarchy devalue the pound and make the natives play baseball instead of cricket . |
| 2 | ‘ Hi , ’ William says , tossing back some blond hair fallen over his forehead . |
| 3 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 4 | When it rained their branches swayed and hissed with a sound like that of the ocean spilling over some distant shore . |
| 5 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 6 | The orthodox visualized themselves cutting through the wire or bringing off some unprecedented bluff at the main gate . |
| 7 | He shook his head and made a movement with his hand , as if warding off some invisible threat . |
| 8 | Whereas two out of three people aged between 18 and 34 are paying off some current credit commitment , fewer than one in five pensioners are . |
| 9 | One in three credit buyers have still been paying off some previous transaction with the same lender when they have arranged their most recent significant credit purchase . |
| 10 | If he was leading up some further project which required her co-operation , the answer would be no . |
| 11 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 12 | Good drama is very much about dealing with the mess we find ourselves in , not calling up some outside agency to solve all our problems . |
| 13 | Raynor came to a stop outside a thick , low door set into the wall , and stood for a moment looking at it , as if summoning up some inner resolve . |
| 14 | They do not believe you ; they think that you are holding back some secret clue that would make it all plain . |
| 15 | So the cat is almost certainly performing a mimicry display , reacting like a snake in the hope of triggering off some deep-seated fear of a venomous bite in the assailant 's mind . |
| 16 | Since this would necessarily involve cutting out some other part of the course , he suggested stopping the syllabus at 1830 , and removing the study of Victorian literature . |
| 17 | Well , where I currently am is is saying that we should seek to revue the Commission 's overall boundaries with a view to us taking on some extra work , and that meanwhile we should suspend further recruitment . |
| 18 | She pictured Jezrael back home after a shift at Nutristem , laughing and ranting over some petty injustice , wry with self-mockery , a crusader with no shield but a vivacity she could n't even see . |
| 19 | They drank coffee , Jay 's brain slurring off some awful truth . |
| 20 | The woman called Roe was putting up some black material at the front window . |
| 21 | Once the task force had been committed , only the withdrawal of the Argentinian troops would justify them carrying out some gigantic U-turn in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 22 | HAVING by now produced one or two very presentable videos by the direct method of editing in camera , you may be ready to move on to carrying out some post-production editing as a way of overcoming the limitations of in-camera editing and further improving the standard of your work . |
| 23 | We had eaten and drunk well , our gallows faces flushed with wine , our stupid mouths bawling out some raucous song and planning our next escapade . |
| 24 | By now we were careering round some Kentish country lanes near Swanley . |
| 25 | If he was a journalist intent on digging up some ancient dirt , he 'd come up empty-handed . |
| 26 | It is this latter fault alone which explains the fact that rather than waste precious time in thinking up some other location I was lazily content to make Miller 's London home a flat rather like the one in which I am now diligently at work , here in cruelly named Shepherd 's Bush . |
| 27 | He was there now , setting up some important job or other . |
| 28 | His girlfriend was chatting up some big-shot drama critic at the time as well . |
| 29 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
| 30 | They were on Factory , they were churning out some debonair guitar pop in the form of ‘ Brighter ’ and ‘ A Gentle Sound ’ and they were liked . |