Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on dreamily , as if he were speaking of some Homeric adventure . |
| 2 | There seemed no stopping her and he felt as if he were listening to some of the most important information he had ever heard . |
| 3 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 4 | Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns . |
| 5 | LOOKING like he is appearing in some designer-conscious jeans advert , Nicholas Cage steps out of a big white gas guzzler on a sun-baked road in Wyoming . |
| 6 | She senses he is waiting for some sign from her . |
| 7 | It seems he is indulging in some extra physio with the little darling who runs on with the sponge for Frampton . |
| 8 | Erm I still want to bring Kate and her father as well I think cos he 's looking at some people , is n't he ? |
| 9 | Erm Gillam , he 's working for some er publishers in London . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's going through some sort of crisis or — metamorphosis . |
| 11 | so he 's going for some more tests next week . |
| 12 | Rumours say he 's co-operating with some strange bedfellows . |
| 13 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 14 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 15 | We tracked down Ranteallo in the most elegant of these structures , which he was sharing with some thirty family members , guests , and slaves . |
| 16 | A second or two later , however , Fabia was turning her concentration to her plate , and giving herself something of a silent talking-to — her theme being that Ven would think he was lunching with some deranged lunatic if she went on grinning like that at him all through the meal . |
| 17 | He was searching among some old boxes . |
| 18 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 19 | The little boy leaned his face to one side as if he was listening to some signal inaudible to mere mortals , and he whispered , ‘ I am going to destroy Malik . |
| 20 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |
| 21 | She rather thought he was hoping for some reciprocal comment or gesture , but for the life of her , whether he thought it unforgivable or not , she just had to burst out laughing , and ‘ Lubor ! ’ she laughed . |
| 22 | Then he fell silent , as if he was thinking of some way to turn this promise into a purpose , and he added , in the barest of trembled whispers , ‘ As I am an eagle of Wrath do I promise it . |
| 23 | Although he seemed to be oblivious of what had happened , because he was concentrating on some letter or other , Eliot looked up resignedly and with a smile of one all too accustomed to the lack of business acumen in other people ; but I could see that he was also relieved to find me not too cast down . |
| 24 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 25 | He said he was coming for some gnocchi tonight . |
| 26 | He was standing with some people in the entrance hall when I arrived . |
| 27 | He thought he was suffering from some sort of glandular disease . |
| 28 | Although he was working on some big accounts — British Gas , Bankers Trust , Harris Queensway and Beecham — he was ambitious and keen for a little more action . |
| 29 | I gather they 're going to tell us he was working on some secret defence project , after all . |
| 30 | He was working through some papers . |