Example sentences of "i was [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 2 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 3 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 4 | Celery seeds , I was looking for some of those yesterday . |
| 5 | I was looking at some last night and they had erm privately owned cottages or |
| 6 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 7 | This is actually tying this up with an exam question , I was looking through some past papers to try and spot things we may not have covered in detail . |
| 8 | Erm I was looking through some of the books for some of the startling figures and things that happen in world trade . |
| 9 | I 've pulled out a few press cuttings as well whilst I was looking through some of the for this talk . |
| 10 | Now I was looking through some brochures about erm productions of Romeo and Juliet , I have n't found one yet that 's on before May . |
| 11 | AT RONNIE SCOTT 's Club last night I was chatting to some of the members , insofar as one could hear one 's self talk above the noise of the musicians , when the subject of London transport came up . |
| 12 | I was compensated to some extent by the magnificent scenery . |
| 13 | I was cheered by some superficial damage to the station at Cologne . |
| 14 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 15 | But shortly after , to my surprise , I saw the female and two kits peering out from one of the branch holes , surveying the river , and for the rest of the day I was treated to some amazing mink behaviour . |
| 16 | ‘ We have battled well in recent games but I was heartened by some of our football in the midweek win over Grimsby Town . |
| 17 | " I was thinking of some others too , " I said . |
| 18 | Actually I was thinking of some really good , funny things I could say earlier |
| 19 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 20 | As I said , I 've done dozens of talks now at various schools , but one that sticks in my mind is a private preparatory school for girls in Tavistock , where I was received like some sort of pop star ! |
| 21 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
| 22 | " I was delayed to some extent because the address given to me was 626 Cheyne Walk , which I could not find , but eventually the river police directed me . " |
| 23 | Along the way I was engaged in some of the startling ‘ business as usual ’ banking practices that have begun to plague the world financial system . |
| 24 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 25 | ‘ I was approached by some of the victims of that situation ( the Northern Ireland conflict ) to help them in whatever way I could . |
| 26 | At the moment erm the way that we use computers is , of course , to use a keyboard , but I was talking to some people today who 've now developed and you can buy it , erm a system on which you can write on what you want to say , so that as long as you print fairly clearly you do n't have to learn any new typing skills . |
| 27 | The things I find so tragic , and I was talking to some girls erm in a sixth form college recently , and the thing that I find saddest is that the schools evade the issue . |
| 28 | ‘ I was talking about some of the funny things that happen there and Mum said it was the sort of place he should be going to . ’ |
| 29 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 30 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |