Example sentences of "some [adj] [noun] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |
| 2 | The full 60-second version of ‘ Nature ’ will be used , with some small additions to link it to the TV commercial . |
| 3 | Before that time , alcohol had been in general use to deaden pain , though some sturdy souls rejected it on principle . |
| 4 | It is possible that the range of the nasal-raising rule was wider than in nineteenth-century Belfast , as some other spellings indicate it in monosyllables before nasal + voiced obstruent : these are hendes ( 'hands ' ) , bend ( 'band' ) . |
| 5 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |