Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | As I mentioned , you 've been getting some advocacy experience , although you might not have realized it , in litigation already . |
| 17 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 18 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 19 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 26 | He had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console with some lower-level relays here in the ballroom ; he 'd been running some smoke and dry ice earlier , and some of it still hung in the air and gave the lighted area beyond the doorways the effect of some offworld film set . |
| 27 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 28 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 29 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 30 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |