Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 2 | An account written by someone participating in some event or controversy may give a far more partial view than the carefully researched , balanced interpretation of a later historian who has sifted and weighed up all available evidence . |
| 3 | To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility . |
| 4 | If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs ( |
| 5 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 6 | He 'll find himself going into some supermarket in Praed Street , buying fillets of plaice and frozen broccoli for her sons ' dinner … |
| 7 | Cook for 1 hour 43 minutes and you have Death Becomes Her , a frothy souffle whose first bite melts deliciously in the mouth but soon leaves you champing for some meat . |
| 8 | Penetrating , complex and totally different in structure , it pulls the single line of melody up and down and spins it out to leave you dangling in some sort of musical nirvana . |
| 9 | Or were we tapping into some kind of general biochemical mechanism relevant to all types of learning ? |
| 10 | Will that continue to be the case , or are we looking at some kind of block grant formula here ? |
| 11 | You know , because this , were they slacking in some way , why did n't they get twenty ? |
| 12 | Ginny smoothed her hands on her dress and got her breathing under some sort of control . |
| 13 | He 'd been unhappy at her leaving without some commitment , anxious that she should have the ‘ protection ’ of his ring on her finger . |
| 14 | I suppose I put it to him hoping for some response . |
| 15 | Nor are they indulging in some form of display . |
| 16 | Economic prosperity and satisfaction led many , perhaps , to look rather benignly upon Hallstein 's activist Commission and not to be unduly worried by the possibility of it developing into some kind of European government . |
| 17 | A third State is affected by a treaty as a matter of fact when the treaty necessitates it acting in some way in response ( even if its preferred response is to do nothing ) . |
| 18 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |