Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or helping to write some plays . |
| 2 | Armstrong , meanwhile , was doggedly struggling to create some sort of classification system , a Domesday Book in miniature , for the Cabinet committees . |
| 3 | The United States therefore stepped into the European argument , seeking to preserve some semblance of economic consensus . |
| 4 | A problem shared is usually a problem halved , whether it is learning how to cope with rheumatism , wanting to lose some weight or caring for an elderly relative . |
| 5 | NORTECH SYSTEMS LOOKING TO ACQUIRE SOME CUSTOM COMPUTER CABLE ASSETS |
| 6 | These topics fall into three main groups : ( a ) recognising the pattern of variation and seeking to correlate its occurrence with some environmental factor ; ( b ) seeking to find some differences in ability or behaviour between morphologically-different animals ; ( c ) searching for evidence of selection . |
| 7 | The plain fact is that in most of your interactions with other people you are seeking to exert some influence — to persuade . |
| 8 | We 'd been moaning to Malcolm about wanting to play some gigs . |
| 9 | James II was also at this time seeking to win some support from the Nonconformists . |
| 10 | ‘ Liverpool had also bought Mark Wright and when a club has spent more than £5m they are bound to be looking to recoup some money . |
| 11 | I was very happy with the African work , and it 's left me wanting to do some exploration work , travelling expeditions and so on , as well as pure sports work . ’ |
| 12 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 13 | The decision of the Divisional Court bears the marks of a rescue operation , seeking to save some sanity for transport policy in London and for the right of statutory authorities to exercise statutory powers within the statutory terms given to them . |
| 14 | A number of reviews of Karajan 's early recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra were written by the precociously gifted Andrew Porter , a critic often quoted by the anti-Karajan lobby or adulatory biographers looking to add some grist to the mill . |
| 15 | Some people are wanting to bury some body here . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I met that young man Billy Sullivan in the park the other day , ’ Annie said casually , wanting to glean some information about him . |
| 17 | Precisely because it is seeking to bring some awareness of spirituality to those mostly brought up in a spiritual desert , great care is needed to avoid conveying misleading impressions . |
| 18 | In the semi-final they meet James Talbot and Michael Nutt of the Old Bleach Club , who will be seeking to gain some compensation after they were in the Old Bleach side which lost this season 's CIS Irish Senior Cup championship final to Carrickfergus by a mere five shots . |
| 19 | The audit regime has teeth and , through refusing to register some firms and imposing conditions on others , the Institute has demonstrated that it is not afraid to bite . |
| 20 | That was why the Liaison Office , looking to make some gesture of welcome had invited Maxim . |
| 21 | After all , since there are postnominal attributives , and since attributive adjectives have the function of helping to identify some entity , and since associatives certainly do this even though their referential locus is different from that of the noun qualified , the reason for the gap is not obvious . |
| 22 | I remember going to see some works by the artist Klement Redko . |
| 23 | Are you going to see some family or what ? |
| 24 | ‘ The men were going to see some action , or ‘ have some fun ’ as they put it , and that was quite enough to render them light-hearted and care-free . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to see some patients in Santa Barbara , and I thought you 'd like to come , since you took it upon yourself to interfere in the Freitas family 's life . ’ |
| 26 | I think it 's more constructive ; we 're always going to make weapons of some kind , ships of some kind , boats , we 're always going to drive some kind of vehicle , and we 're always going to need hospital equipment . |
| 27 | No index is shown here , but this would be the last stage in the compilation of the scheme ; besides attempting to classify some items by the scheme , the index serves to check the scheme 's likely effectiveness . |
| 28 | In the film Hospital George C. Scott plays the administrator attempting to impose some order on the chaos of misadventure , accidents , and disasters passing themselves off as medical care . |
| 29 | She was going to pick some flowers for Jenny 's room . |
| 30 | Are you going to pick some sort of album or something then ? |