Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |
| 32 | This consisted of a milk bottle filled with water to which had been added some lemon juice , and four rounds of Vienna bread , which should have contained beef , but it had run out . |
| 33 | ‘ An institution for the purpose of cultivating this art ( of veterinary medicine ) similar to those which have been established some years in France , Germany , Piedmont , Sweden , Denmark , etc. would afford an exhaustless fund of amusement to independent persons , as well as of precious instruction to all . |
| 34 | Newark wanted to take it forward and er I went and talked to them and I said to them you 're not really appropriate , what you want is to recruit some more specials |
| 35 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 36 | By the way — ’ Helen paused , ‘ — she has been gathering some gossip that will probably interest you . |
| 37 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 38 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 39 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 40 | Some sort of ex-military man who 'd been having some rather rough games with some of the boys . |
| 41 | All she did was get some friends to help a friend , and now look what 's happened . |
| 42 | As I mentioned , you 've been getting some advocacy experience , although you might not have realized it , in litigation already . |
| 43 | Now obviously that requires a more precise working knowledge of newspapers and the other media , what they want , when and how they need it , what the sort of particular publication is , you 've been discussing some of that and we can perhaps go into some of that in , in a bit more detail a bit later on . |
| 44 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 45 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |
| 46 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 47 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 48 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 49 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 50 | Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer . |
| 51 | The last thing she wanted was to have some overbearing man muscling in . |
| 52 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 53 | every time I look , turn round , she 's been visiting some aids patient |
| 54 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 55 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 56 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 57 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 58 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 59 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 60 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |