Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 2 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 3 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 4 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 5 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 6 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 7 | Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived . |
| 8 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 9 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 10 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 11 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 12 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 13 | Cheryl 's been saying some odd things . |
| 14 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 15 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |
| 16 | Already Dublin has been showing some concern , since they will be submitted as British government rather than Anglo-Irish proposals . |
| 17 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 18 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |