Example sentences of "was [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was producing some 100,000 rifles a month ; many more were received from her allies ; and hundreds of thousands of recruits had been enlisted and partly trained . |
| 2 | Display manager John Birch said the complaint could have arisen because the store was using some male dummies for the first time in several years . |
| 3 | She must have thought she was using some magic password known only to the foreigners who drank this strange golden liquid in preference to kava . |
| 4 | He was nursing some secret or other … |
| 5 | I think Lady Eleanor was nursing some secret but she would tell no one . ’ |
| 6 | Sitting on a carved stool on the hearthrug , holding forth like the Ancient Mariner , Haverford was bringing some long anecdote to a conclusion . |
| 7 | It would seem so after we received a phone call from a North Wales resident who was bringing some American pals over to our fair city to sample some entertaining nights out in Liverpool . |
| 8 | The new ramp at Bracknell draws away any half-way decent vert skaters that were still skating Farnborough except the Fleet skaters , in particular Mike Bews who was keeping some old Farnborough traditions going with some hard core skating . |
| 9 | When this song failed to make the impact she clearly expected it to make , she turned to Henry as if she was addressing some Yugoslav peasant and did a lot of the kind of lip and tongue work she had used on Elke , their one and only au pair . |
| 10 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 11 | When Charlie heard the news of victory he was training some raw recruits on a rifle range in Edinburgh . |
| 12 | If that was paying some important bills they 'd be struggling . |
| 13 | A man was fixing some faulty wiring in his caravan when he slipped and knocked his head . |
| 14 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 15 | Because he wanted to use it to locate carp and pike he was getting some fiery abuse . |
| 16 | That group progressed quite a lot that year , from being almost unteachable in the beginning , to being at least teachable , and I was getting some fair work out of them … but it was very time consuming . |
| 17 | Vern was getting some more stew ladled on to his plate by Mrs F. ‘ Talked about dreams , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I , I was expecting some forty year old white , well dressed , you know Conservative |
| 19 | After the first sip he was wishing some awful fate on every Lioniser in the world . |
| 20 | Just one little month later , BBD 's Deputy MD Bob McInnes was fielding some heavy ( and live on air ) criticism from BBC Radio . |
| 21 | The two teams then ‘ leapfrogged ’ up the King Pot series , while Rupert Skorupka was doing some impressive dives downstream from the King Pot end . |
| 22 | I was doing some mental arithmetic , counting up what was in my wire basket , when I got a great dig in the backside . |
| 23 | A teacher was doing some mental arithmetic , including estimation , with a group of 15 year olds . |
| 24 | He was doing some other thing than dancing . ’ |
| 25 | Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks . |
| 26 | Except that she had n't dreamt about Tony for the past three nights , so perhaps he was doing some good . |
| 27 | I was doing some swift mental arithmetic , and the result was so crazy that I paused to rework the sums in my head . |
| 28 | This point had already occurred to Loretta , who was doing some rapid calculations . |
| 29 | For over Rosemary 's shoulder she saw at once beyond the short width of the hall and into the sitting-room — and Rosemary was doing some entertaining herself . |
| 30 | Aside from its last-minute agreement with Unix System Labs ( see front ) , SCO was strengthening some other key relationships in preparation for the highly-competitive months ahead for those in the operating system software business . |