Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem . |
| 2 | In this respect they are much the same as primitive people , who often take several days over assembling for some purpose and then several more to get started . |
| 3 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 4 | The old man is walking with some woman and one of those red dogs from the cigarette commercials . |
| 5 | And I remember just sort of leaping onto some grass and just letting it go , you know , could of been . |
| 6 | LOOKING FOR SOME PEACE AND QUIET AWAY FROM THE PEAK DISTRICT HORDES ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |
| 9 | If a cut-off maximum on the number of livestock per farm attracting HLCAs was applied in the UK ( as it is in France ) , a major incentive to over-grazing ( leading to some moorland and roughland loss ; degradation of species rich grasslands ; broadleaved woodland destruction and mountain erosion ) would be removed . |
| 10 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 11 | Later that Wednesday , as she was teaching a class of children , two men came into the classroom asking for some paper and pencils . |
| 12 | Sometimes I go without crying for some while and then I go through phases of crying rather a lot . |
| 13 | Although sympathetic to a progressive rights theory , Dignan attempts to avoid this problem by examining in some breadth and detail the validity of the assumptions made by Dworkin concerning modern liberal political systems , and argues that Dworkin 's assumptions may help provide the peace movement with a legal theory . |
| 14 | Right , well I I part of me says , the the there are two aspects , the other side of the coin a little bit , if we talk about recording achievement and not recording failure , we here have an opportunity to point out to youngsters , encourage youngsters in that they are all capable of achieving in some way and to get them to write down that they have achieved , that 's the other side of the coin . |
| 15 | The mornings of Sunday and Monday were spent setting up the arena , putting in some dance and fight practice , and generally preparing for the show before the pre-show meeting . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , the fact remains that even this frog is dependent upon rains arriving at some time and its active life is , in reality , condensed to that brief moment when the desert is wet . |
| 17 | You 're supposed to be taking things easy , and I come home after a day 's work and a beastly journey hoping for some restoration and some intelligent company . |
| 18 | In 1867 , whilst excavating in the ancient theatre at Ephesus , he found an inscription in Greek referring to some gold and silver statuettes , which , on festive days , were carried from the temple to the theatre by way of the Magnesian Gate . |
| 19 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 20 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 21 | Some would say that there is nothing remarkable or wrong in working for some group and being paid to answer some question that the group regards as important . |