Example sentences of "be a [noun] [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I mean is that I wish I could snap my fingers and suddenly there 'd be a band playing some soft , slow music . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This is the Doctor , he 's a Brit investigating some occurrences here . ’ |
| 3 | In Daniel Waley 's admirable Italian City-Republics there is a map featuring some sixty or seventy Italian towns with a history worth recording in the mid and late Middle Ages ; of these roughly half could reasonably be called ‘ hill towns ’ , and most of them lie in Umbria and Tuscany . |
| 4 | Situation : A is a police-officer investigating some damage that has been done near the school A thinks that B may have had something to do with it . |
| 5 | A meaning postulate is a formula expressing some aspect of the sense of a predicate [ Hurford , 1983 ] , using a predicate-calculus-like notation that permits any number of arguments . |
| 6 | A PAC is a group representing some interest such as labour or more specifically abortion or gun control . |
| 7 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 8 | There was a woman buying some lingerie for another . |