Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he were having some Aunts come from er his Aunts from er Manchester . |
| 2 | Fernandez , as he was to do some years later , provided a link to Dave 's caddying days with one Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 3 | ‘ He was seeing some woman , like mother said . ’ |
| 4 | He looked as if he was reciting some charm to ward off evil spirits . |
| 5 | Instinct told him he was passing some kind of test . |
| 6 | Jack took the piece of paper , his gaze not leaving Chrissie 's , as if he was seeking some confirmation that the note was harmless . |
| 7 | Meanwhile there was Keelan Lambert with whom he was developing some hind of tentative relationship . |
| 8 | He was wearing some kind of rock ‘ n ’ roll suit , the sort of thing that Jerry Lee Lewis might have worn — or more likely the duds you 'd see on a young country buck in one of those dreadful fifties US musicals like Carousel or County Fair . |
| 9 | He was wearing some sort of outlandish costume and his lips were rouged . |
| 10 | He was wearing some sort of brown caftan . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His pale , brilliant eyes on her face , as if he was expecting some reaction , he said deliberately , ‘ I own Ca ’ del Leone . ’ |
| 13 | Inside he felt a warm glow , relieved that at last he was getting some answers . |
| 14 | He was real glad that he was getting some acceptance . |
| 15 | He was taking some friends home after a party in Great Malvern . |
| 16 | He took no special notice of her , but she felt welcome , and when he was explaining some method of or reason for the cultivation of certain trees , she sensed he was talking to her as much as to the boys and girls around them . |
| 17 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 18 | ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’ |
| 19 | Paige looked round , unsure if he was making some allusion to her or not . |
| 20 | Then I realized he was making some sort of joke and endeavoured to smile appropriately , though I suspect some residue of my bewilderment , not to say shock , remained detectable in my expression . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's a wheeler-dealer and he came across it in a house where he was doing some plastering , ’ said Walton , who used a similar one when he played in the 1981 Walker Cup match in America . |
| 22 | On hearing that Mills was headed for the Middle East , Suit had suggested he should look Coleman up in Cyprus because he was doing some research there and had a lot of good contacts . |
| 23 | Did Carnelian think he was playing some childhood game ? |
| 24 | I knew on the one hand that he was playing some kind of trick on me ; a trick like the one with the loaded dice . |
| 25 | He looked perfectly amiable , so why did she get this feeling of apprehension , as though he was playing some sort of waiting game ? |
| 26 | He became a liveryman of the Poulterers ' Company in 1767 , and in the same year was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company , in which he was to achieve some eminence . |
| 27 | Though he was to achieve some distinction as a watercolour artist , exhibiting at several galleries , he was to become better known through his voluntary work for the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb ( R.A.D.D. ) for which he was honorary secretary for many years . |
| 28 | He was woken some time later by being kicked in the backside quite painfully . |
| 29 | He was having some trouble with one section . |
| 30 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |