Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd think they would n't want to be seen in public ; but no , there they are , living it up , and my own daughter aiding and abetting them as if she were doing some thing clever . |
| 2 | Pat told of how , when she first started knitting , she was given some patterns . |
| 3 | Indeed , his position as Town 's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well . |
| 4 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 5 | She was expecting some supper . |
| 6 | She was holding some sheets of typed paper in her hand . |
| 7 | She was lighting some candles . |
| 8 | She was left some property in Italy by an elderly Count who had always admired her , even wanted to marry her , I believe . ’ |
| 9 | She was talking some years back now about |
| 10 | Nothing very brilliant had come to her , though , until , not thinking of her problem in so much depth , she was doing some washing-up when she thought of Rosemary and , suddenly , of how Rosemary was renting her flat . |
| 11 | She was finding some sort of bitter happiness in this . |
| 12 | Vera Shroff , a mathematics student , found that tutoring brought back the fun of a subject she was having some teething troubles in coping with at university level . |
| 13 | She was awakened some time later by the sound of Fen 's voice and his hand briefly shaking her by the shoulder . |