Example sentences of "be [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 2 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 3 | Erm we are renumbering some points in that one , erm we were trying to avoid it before but I ca n't seem any way of avoiding it here because these are major new things . |
| 4 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 5 | The ‘ silent spring ’ predicted by Rachel Carson some 20 years ago has not arrived , even though global sales of pesticides last year totalled £7 billion ; but persistent organochlorine insecticides , such as DDT , are damaging some populations of birds , and chemicals sometimes destroy beneficial natural enemies and thereby actually create pests . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't actually fixed a time when I will return , it just depends when I am made some offers . ’ |
| 7 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 8 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
| 9 | On Aug. 19 Joint Political and Military Commission ( CCPM ) observers reported that the situation remained tense , and expressed dismay that recommendations to end the violence , which had been made some days earlier , had yet to be implemented . |
| 10 | Where one-off items have been selected some stores will reserve them for you , but you may have to buy them yourself if they are n't chosen . |
| 11 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're building some shops here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 're building some shops and a hotel there too . |
| 14 | Tonight , though , we 're given some clues as to why the bachelor detective leads such a very private life . |
| 15 | We commission consultants who produced a report suggesting a southern route , but the northern route , the A41 route , is not ruled out , because we have n't made any proposals — so we 're looking some years down the road . |
| 16 | You have to , you 're getting some vouchers tonight |
| 17 | We 're expecting some students to get merit . |
| 18 | We 're lacking some tools in at home . |
| 19 | Now erm , you 're making some notes on what to look at when you 're drawing the graph |
| 20 | it 's all in the price there , because this is what you actually get very often , you 're ringing some places up and they 'll say , oh but you you had VAT through this week . |
| 21 | Now , we 're featuring some stars of the present and future in our roundup . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 23 | I 've had some packed lunches which were perfect , but I 've also been sold some horrors . |
| 24 | In table 9.8 are shown some examples of the changes in unit costs which were used in the GRE formulae over the short period from 1983/4 to 1986/7 . |
| 25 | I am sending some recipes to my father , the Earl of Argyll , ’ to remind him . |
| 26 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 27 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 28 | Parents who are very concerned about weight loss are often tempted to give the pudding even if the child has not finished the main course because they are getting some calories into the child . |
| 29 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
| 30 | Under this heading I am examining some texts in Isaiah 40 for which the possibility of an analysis as the parallelism of greater precision may have some exegetical value . |