Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Such pairs of things are like a causal circumstance and its effect in that they stand in fundamental nomic or necessary connection ( 1.3 ) , which is to say some connection stated by an independent nomic conditional statement .
2 With the other legal deposit libraries , NLS is participating in a preservation microfilming project funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , which is devoting some $2.5m to this purpose in the UK .
3 And it usually leads to the second thing which is to give some testimony .
4 I said I think somebody 's saying some untruth to me .
5 She 's getting some money , and I know for a fact she getting it .
6 She 's bringing some files I have to work on .
7 ‘ Er — she 's made some mistakes ? ’
8 that 's right , I mean she 's , she 's took some money , or taken some money if , I mean she 'll be home twelve o'clock if it do n't suit her like
9 Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country .
10 So Mark said they were out celebrating after he cam and he 's working for them next Saturday , she 's doing some kind of a function ,
11 She is wearing some beads now , hidden for the moment under her clothes . )
12 We have seen that it is communication with another person who is experiencing some kind of emotional trouble , or acting under stress in some way .
13 One is to convey some sense of where a child is in the process of learning ; the other is to make easier the analysis of results from groups of children .
14 Thinking about it he s got some kind of ‘ hot streak ’ when it comes to the FA Cup .
15 Some cloners think Sun regrets making previous Sparcstations too easy to knock off so it 's putting some obstacles in the way .
16 It 's taken some time to construct .
17 It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution .
18 But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier .
19 Not surprisingly , given the number of new products it has on the go , the company says that it is ploughing some 12% of its turnover back into research and development .
20 Britain 's BT has its own global offerings , Syncordia and Cyclone , into which it is sinking some $100m .
21 The American government has recently announced that it is to spend some $18 million to wipe out the pig population of Haiti in an effort to control the virus .
22 The Gwili is a small society running a two-mile line on a shoe-string and yet it is having some success in extending both the length of the line and its infrastructure .
23 The best way to find it is to look some way off a line joining Beta Ceti to Alpha Phœnicis .
24 He is holding some back . ’
25 He is pinning some hope on a cabinet reshuffle .
26 He is carrying some papers and is accompanied by two askaris with rifles , and an interpreter , dressed in khakis .
27 An indifferent speller will know that some words cause him difficulty , and will ask for them ; but he will also think he is spelling some words correctly that he is , in fact , getting wrong .
28 But he is accorded some sort of grudging acceptance by ‘ James , the brother of the Lord ’ , who dispatches him to Tarsus , to preach there .
29 I am certain he 's back in Britain because he 's contacted some people .
30 It appears that he 's reading some scripts and … ’
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