Example sentences of "he [verb] be [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 4 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 5 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 6 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 7 | It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things . |
| 8 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |