Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember being given some caviar once when we were in Russia — wrapped in newspaper because they had no containers to put it in ! |
| 2 | I 've been sent some stuff by Chris who used to run Harlow group . |
| 3 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 4 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 5 | I 've been giving some thought to the content of the next magazine with which I hope you can help . |
| 6 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of our magazine Rural Wales / Cymru Wledig , and I would like to persuade you to contribute the next Comment Column ( see page 2 of the magazine ) . |
| 7 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of Rural Wales/ Cymru Wledig , and to the contribution you could make . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been giving some thought to our — problem , ’ he stated . |
| 9 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 10 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 11 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 12 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 13 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 14 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 15 | I HAVE been left some money by my grandmother and have decided to buy myself a car with it . |
| 16 | The committee also decided in future to pay the CAB quarterly grants in advance , rather than in arrears which has been causing some cash flow problems . |
| 17 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As I mentioned , you 've been getting some advocacy experience , although you might not have realized it , in litigation already . |
| 22 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 23 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 24 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 25 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 28 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 29 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 30 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |