Example sentences of "they are [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They are getting some new designs in this morning , and I must see them before they are snapped up . ’ |
| 3 | And anyway there were no witnesses , though they are bringing some forward who will pretend to be . ’ |
| 4 | Good stakes can last a long time , but it does help if they are cut some months before they are used , and well seasoned . |
| 5 | In addition , a number of people who have gone through our study seminars keep in touch with us and tell us that they are using some of the things they 've learned here to be exposed here for their own work , but it 's very difficult to tell . |
| 6 | Supply teachers are more effective and happier when they are given some guidance on routines and expectations . |
| 7 | They are to replace some of the narrow Wilton Looms , including the one on which the Holyrood Carpet was woven . |
| 8 | But these chaps down at Bootle on Merseyside — in fact the correspondent is a woman — are , one assumes , ordinary , helpful ( they are communicating some helpful information ) and hardworking people . |
| 9 | they are laying some new fandangled pourous underlayer or summink ? |
| 10 | No doubt the publishers would claim that it was all in the pursuit of the greater truth , in the way that the slimy tabloids and the unspeakable Sunday Times do when they are parading some particularly unpleasant piece of gossip . |
| 11 | They are training some of the region 's future central bankers . |
| 12 | They are approaching some great metropolis . |
| 13 | Here they are shown some of the paper archives in the National Geosciences Data Centre . |
| 14 | As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries . |
| 15 | Thus it is important for the computer experts to adapt if they are to maintain some grasp , albeit a tenuous one , on the computers in their organisations . |
| 16 | They are considered some of your masterpieces . |
| 17 | Instead they expect us to believe that they are describing some consensual , authoritative standard of use . |