Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wolfe admitted handling some of the stolen money and was placed on probation for 18 months . |
| 2 | Previously , the 1969 and 1977 NOP surveys had broached this problem , with a question asking people whether they had considered using some form of credit but had not actually done so — and exploring their reasons . |
| 3 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 4 | And if you 're wanting to spend more time on Johnson at any stage , this is sort of there 's something that I sort of do n't trust producing some er , you know a play to a load of boxes but erm , la la la , and sheets as well . |
| 5 | Interestingly , chimpanzees have been taught to communicate using some basic signs from American Sign Language — a language of gesture and facial expression , both used naturally by chimps living in the wild . |
| 6 | Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression . |
| 7 | About 200 people reported seeing some kind of craft landing near the base in 1980 . |
| 8 | Or , if you think it steals too much potential storage space you could consider sacrificing some of it . |
| 9 | Both of these involve culturing some cells from the baby so they can be tested for genetic abnormalities . |
| 10 | On the strength of this exchange , Lewis realized that Havard would be a man who would enjoy meeting some of the people who had taken to dropping into his rooms at Magdalen on Thursday evenings . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you 'd enjoy meeting some of the local people , away from the usual tourist traps . |
| 12 | On Jan. 31 Seidman suggested that the government should consider reviving some thrifts , if they appeared to be financially healthy , instead of taking them over , and said that a feasibility study was currently under way to explore the possibility . |
| 13 | You should also consider fitting some of the security devices which are illustrated here — they are inexpensive and available at most DIY stores . |
| 14 | Some of these cloths will be interlines and it might be a good notion to try adding some of the iron-on lining to the wrong side while you are pressing . |
| 15 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 16 | In anticipation that the same problem might recur this summer I tried sowing some sweet peas with the runner beans . |
| 17 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 18 | This is available from us free of charge in bulk orders and I hope you will consider taking some for distribution . |
| 19 | Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken . |
| 20 | These included creating some kind of social security for women artists and making available to them a basic training . |
| 21 | You ought to try taking some of them , honestly they 're so easy the exams are , like history , ah , talk about easy , spartan erm , you could G C S E , P E mum |
| 22 | The Wolfenden Committee 's ( 1978 ) survey of voluntary work in the social service field showed that 14 per cent of the national sample reported undertaking some work of that kind in a twelve-month period . |
| 23 | The proposals , confirmed as viable by the newly privatised Merseyside and North West Electricity Board , involve diverting some of the water from two streams at the head of the Falls and piping it underground to a small stone and slate turbine house at the bottom of the valley . |
| 24 | The June exhibition may be so successful that the Hermitage would consider showing some of its own trophy collection alongside the one from Bremen . |
| 25 | Craddock had a chronically infected nasal antrum , and Fleming and he tried instilling some mould filtrate into it , with no obvious benefit . |
| 26 | I tried telling some of the teachers that . |
| 27 | Such a strategy would , as in the case of the Baptist Union , include church planting , it would include training leaders for the task , and it would include setting some immediate goals such as those above . |
| 28 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 29 | I recently tried resurrecting some former friendships and did n't get any response , except for one who turned up on my doorstep , glad that I 'd written . |
| 30 | You stand to risk frightening some men off but since you 've no hope of a future with them it does n't matter if you never see them again . |