Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , the shareholders are passing off some risk on to the manager . |
| 2 | You are more independent , you 're contributing , not only helping and doing in the home but you 're bringing in some money as well . |
| 3 | He seemed to be poring over some papers and the room itself appeared to be tidier than when he had visited it earlier . |
| 4 | We recognised through that review that to train all those people to do the work we would have to use the officers specialist inspectors and therefore those specialist inspectors would be carrying out less inspections during this year because they 'd actually be carrying out some training . |
| 5 | Well , we shall certainly be setting up some projects , but we would hope to use small-scale projects which are perhaps already underway in different local authorities . |
| 6 | This is as well as ‘ an attempt at mind regression ’ and Vic and Bob 's appearance as alter-egos , Donald and Davey Stott , who this weekend will be trying out some magic . |
| 7 | But his solicitor Geoff Cardwell said Thompson had been worried about a man who had been carrying out some work for his ex-wife . |
| 8 | On looking more closely , we discovered that in one corner of the house , where the Electricity Authority had been carrying out some repair work , the pipe insulation had n't been replaced . |
| 9 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 10 | Erm , and at the moment we are carrying out some studies which er are nearing completion , to decided exactly what the R A F's future requirements are for tactical reconnaissance . |
| 11 | ‘ I heard they were selling off some cottages on the Woburn Estate , ’ said Crawford shortly afterwards ‘ I thought that would be great . |
| 12 | A Spaniard and an Englishman were arguing over some duty , when the Englishman headbutted the Spaniard between the eyes ; as the latter stepped backwards clutching his face , the Briton executed a curious hopping movement as he placed both his hands behind the Spaniard 's head and wrenched it down to meet his upcoming knee . |
| 13 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |
| 14 | A man is passing round some morsels of raw heart and liver . |
| 15 | Beryl 's collecting up some toilet rolls from the up St Meringer for two P . |
| 16 | The Centre is carrying out some work concentrating on the housing circumstances of particular disadvantaged groups . |
| 17 | Unless the translator is carrying out some kind of linguistic exercise , for instance for research purposes , transferring the devices used in the source text into the target text will not do . |
| 18 | British Telecom is putting up some £1 million toward the project including three hours free time each day on OTS . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think the thing we want to avoid at all costs — I mean , I really feel quite strongly about this — is setting up some kind of Utopia — some kind of over-simplified Arcadia which would n't stretch the imagination of the … ’ |
| 20 | She says that it would be wrong of the council to judge who is a good or bad busker , what they 're doing is setting out some rules so everyone knows where they stand . |
| 21 | The next day I was hanging out some washing and he walked past me . |
| 22 | I was worrying over some homework |
| 23 | You know he was cutting out some card |
| 24 | He was running off some sort of three-page newsletter under a clenched fist wrapped in barbed wire masthead . |
| 25 | … She was crouching over some flower bed , I see her , always , extracting some weed or other . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , as Richie Quick I was following up some leads . |