Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm hoping in some way we can stop it happening again . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm listening to some music . |
| 3 | No we 're not , I 'm listening to some music |
| 4 | Ropers , they do n't know , well they know I 'm coming in some time today , but they do n't know when |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm dying for some punch . |
| 6 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 12 | I had the idea for this design one day when I was working on some embroidery . |
| 13 | First you are looking for some mystery man called Svend , then it is your sister , but all the time you are taking an inventory of my apartment . ’ |
| 14 | There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease . |
| 15 | You 're hovering like some void-bird … |
| 16 | ‘ If you 're looking for some kind of … counselling , ’ says Riva , ‘ I 'll ask my father if he knows of anyone who … ’ |
| 17 | I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight . |
| 18 | If you 're planning on some kissing action on February 14th , make sure your lips are looking lovely ! |
| 19 | They 're the times when when actually look at which ones we 'd use remember the strengths in these some of the biggest yes you can go into greater detail you can see the reaction face to face you 'll get feedback straight away verbal as well as non-verbal er you know immediately what the answer is if there 's if you 're waiting for some sort of reply to it , you 'll have more effect because it 's face to face erm , cheap on material but it 's expensive on time you do n't have a formal written record and it can be very time consuming . |
| 20 | Apparently she 's going with some bloke who |
| 21 | She is going to some home , that is all , nothing could be less remarkable . |
| 22 | As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality . |
| 23 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 24 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 25 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 26 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 27 | " My daughter said she was talking to some man in the street . |
| 28 | Adam joined Billie in the small shop in the lobby where she was browsing through some silk scarves . |
| 29 | And when she found she was putting on some weight , she took up swimming regularly . |
| 30 | From a practical standpoint we are suffering from some jail overcrowding problems here and certainly this was one option to take an offender who does n't really belong behind iron bars and punish them at home , and from a personal standpoint I was sort of intrigued with the novelty of it all and the technology aspects of it . |