Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bad as they were , gelatine glues were better than the alternative , the gums or starch glues which were made by boiling some kind of flour in water . |
| 2 | All these points were approved for printing some months before they became official policy . |
| 3 | One day , while we were sitting around having some coffee with a few other actors , he suddenly said , ‘ Of course The Magnificent Seven would have been nothing without me . ’ |
| 4 | They were thinking of doing some violence , they were so angry . |
| 5 | ‘ This is none of my business , but did I just hear you say you were thinking of doing some private nursing to save for an overseas trip ? ’ |
| 6 | We were gon na get some other videos out but there were n't |
| 7 | And were gon na get some more Christmas stuff on |
| 8 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 9 | I thought they were gon na play some music and let them dance ! |
| 10 | The crush was eased by moving some fans to an empty , condemned section of the ground . |
| 11 | The crush was eased by moving some fans to an empty , condemned section of the ground . |
| 12 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 13 | He had that distant look which showed he was absorbed in solving some problem . |
| 14 | By that time , the mood in Washington was tending towards offering some assistance , according to officials yesterday . |
| 15 | Raymond was accused of arresting some Aquitainian merchants as they crossed his lands and then either imprisoning , blinding , castrating or killing them . |
| 16 | They used to have an occasional break ; and even the most unlikely incident was seized upon to make some diversion in the monotony of the work . |
| 17 | I was thinking of sticking some pages on the World Wide Web for this great team and was wondering if anyone has done this already . |
| 18 | No not yet they erm he was gon na bring some yesterday but the er the guy who does it is out . |
| 19 | said he was gon na bring some biscuits up the street cos I still have n't got any . |
| 20 | I was gon na bring some back and I thought no I wo n't cos I 'll only end up eating it all this week and I 've got three weeks left to get really in shape for Christmas , you know , before I slob out and eat |
| 21 | No , no I was gon na say some you know , just sort of just some ideas are good but I tell you have n't they got some beautiful erm candle holders around this year some really unusual ones . |
| 22 | I was gon na get some more tomorrow . |
| 23 | Ooh no , I was gon na get some of that erm Ronseal stuff , not the creosote |
| 24 | I was gon na buy some but I thought you usually buy some so |
| 25 | But she likes the lumps in er , I was gon na buy some pickled onions today , till I saw the price ! |
| 26 | next week , but Ruxley had quite a few seeds out and erm , Nana was gon na buy some and then she said er , she , she 'll leave it , she 'll go down to Pole Hill first cos they said they 'll be out |
| 27 | By the time of the second anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1991 , the party was working towards rehabilitating some of the high-level casualties of the " turmoil " . |