Example sentences of "be [verb] some [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 The extent of Michael 's ‘ multi-media ’ experience has been to take some Polaroid shots of drawings of his dog .
32 A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice .
33 The latest tomb to be found is situated some 250m west of the first at the base of an adobe truncated pyramid called Huaca Loro and contains a wide range of funerary offerings weighing in all around 1.2 tons .
34 Auntie May , though , said there 's only a quartet , and after he 's done some solo pieces he 's playing with them .
35 THE building materials group Ibstock Johnsen is to shut some manufacturing plants in a move which will cost a total of £28 million .
36 John , John Venables , who is the science correspondents for Radio Cambridge , and as I say who also runs his own media training sessions ; Julian Dunn , who is Senior News Reporter for Radio Cambridge , so I hope he 's going to kneecap a few of you and make life fairly uncomfortable when he 's doing some trial interviews , and Lloyd Addison , who 's a freelance from Radio Norfolk .
37 Another interesting move is to have some evening fixtures .
38 It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution .
39 IBM is licensing some Wollongong Group networking technology for use in future products .
40 The Federated Services interfaces wo n't be around until early next year , but SunSoft is offering some demonstration technology which will be available for Solaris 2.0 next month .
41 Your nan 's missing some chocolate eclairs .
42 every time I look , turn round , she 's been visiting some aids patient
43 If the home was judged to be satisfactory , the prospective foster parent , or ‘ befriender ’ as the RCM preferred to call them , was given some reading matter to prepare for the day .
44 PREMIER John Major was given some Christmas cheer last night when top economists forecast economic revival in Britain next year .
45 I was getting some drawing prep once and what I was actually told to draw was a towel hanging over a chair .
46 However this body was experiencing some role ambiguity and since it possessed no formal power to ensure that its professional judgement was heeded , it tended to define its function as advisory rather than inspectorial .
47 Neighbour Kathy Burn said : ‘ We heard a bang and thought someone was doing some DIY work .
48 This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya .
49 ‘ The wood scraps found on the boy 's clothes suggested someone , somewhere , was doing some house decoration .
50 I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet .
51 Did Carnelian think he was playing some childhood game ?
52 She goes when she was born either he was chewing some chewing gum and it fell out and it went ins caught in your mum 's prinny and it glued it together See you tomorrow dudes .
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