Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 all they do is diddle some keys and it goes off to T S B and then it goes into your account , that 's the way it 's supposed to work
2 ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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