Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
| 2 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 3 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 4 | When he finally pauses to suck some air , I say , ‘ Me not telling the cops is worth ten thousand quid , I reckon . |
| 5 | He ran out of money and had to sell off 40% of his company , and only after six to seven years and scores of design failures did he finally begin to make some money from his enterprise . |
| 6 | A floundering ‘ Hit The North ’ has bassist Hanley grimacing as the subtleties are pummelled out of it , while ‘ White Lightning ’ has the veins in his neck bulging as he desperately tries to inject some energy tries to inject some energy into proceedings . |
| 7 | A floundering ‘ Hit The North ’ has bassist Hanley grimacing as the subtleties are pummelled out of it , while ‘ White Lightning ’ has the veins in his neck bulging as he desperately tries to inject some energy tries to inject some energy into proceedings . |
| 8 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
| 9 | But he still tried to maintain some shreds of panache . |
| 10 | He also planned to spend some time studying work in a flour-mill . |
| 11 | He even managed to do some work in front of the Greek television cameras , so enabling me to make the Central Television programme ‘ At Home with Costakis in Athens ’ . |
| 12 | With £200 outstanding , he fully expected to pay some interest over the month , but was alarmed when it came to £29 . |
| 13 | As he handed Ben the bowl he almost expected to receive some kind of shock — a violent discharge of the child 's unnatural energy — through the medium of the bowl . |
| 14 | He too seemed to feel some sense of strain , for he was too busy avoiding people to talk to her much ; when he trod , helplessly , for the fifth time upon her foot , she stopped still , and said to him , lightly , and with a sense of great daring , |