Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And I remember just sort of leaping onto some grass and just letting it go , you know , could of been .
2 Even in the throes of laughing at some remark passed by Grace Bird , Bunny watched Geoffrey .
3 One kind of answer refers to the increasing differentiation of social functions as human societies become larger and more complex , and to the need for a superior authority in society capable of regulating conflicts of interest among individuals and groups and of representing in some fashion the ‘ general interest ’ .
4 We may certainly talk of animals , in the absence of speech , ‘ consciously intending ’ or being compassionate , both of which carry implications of understanding to some degree .
5 Yesterday Dr Williamson said : ‘ I am aware of a difference of understanding between some committee members and the health authority .
6 Yesterday Dr Williamson said : ‘ I am aware of a difference of understanding between some committee members and the health authority .
7 Instead of acting as some source of " alternative expertise " , projects have been run by union committees and have involved releasing both workers representatives and specialists to produce specifications for new technology and associated systems .
8 It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much .
9 ‘ We are in danger of turning into some seaside vaudeville , ’ was the view of the Prime Minister .
10 ‘ He may have considered the possibility of selling at some stage in the past , ’ she conceded reluctantly .
11 He quotes the report as stating : ’ … it is reasonable for mankind to behave on the assumption that all vertebrates are capable of suffering to some degree or another . ’
12 Such a view helped trade union leaders to think in terms of coming to some type of arrangement with industrialists who were feeling the pinch of economic policy .
13 Right , well I I part of me says , the the there are two aspects , the other side of the coin a little bit , if we talk about recording achievement and not recording failure , we here have an opportunity to point out to youngsters , encourage youngsters in that they are all capable of achieving in some way and to get them to write down that they have achieved , that 's the other side of the coin .
14 Touch legering means , quite simply , that you hold the line and feel for bites instead of relying on some kind of visual indication .
15 Theirs was not the insecurity of peasants , at the mercy of periodic — and to be honest , often more murderous — catastrophes such as drought and famine , but capable of predicting with some accuracy how a poor man or woman would spend most days of their lives from birth to the graveyard .
16 Here we consider the incidence of features which are fore-grounded ( 1.4 ) by virtue of departing in some way from general norms of communication by means of the language code ; for example , exploitation of regularities of formal patterning , or of deviations from the linguistic code .
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