Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin sat down ; he had been wanting to get to know Sarah better for some time and this seemed like a good opportunity . |
| 2 | ROYAL BLACKHEATH , the oldest golf club in England , played host yesterday to some of the oldest golfers in Britain . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , ’ he began , ‘ that you 've had enemies here for some time . |
| 4 | Back at the scene of the burglary , I can remember thinking next , ‘ Oh well , I suppose I can re-wrap some of the parcels that have just been torn open ; I suppose I could use cash instead for some of the presents that have gone ; there is some way that I can cope with this . ’ |
| 5 | There are some sort of public schools survivors groups which have been set up recently and um it 's interesting that this business of being strong and silent um is a kind of is a kind of nineteenth century hangover and I think it affects men and I think it affects women too to some extent . |
| 6 | If you decide to accept infertility or childlessness , then this is the process you will need to go through ; it 's difficult , but we all have to leave dreams behind at some time in our lives . |
| 7 | If you are sending photographs abroad for some friends or relatives , then why not send some local flowers , or some from your garden , as a reminder not only of your family but also of your home or country . |
| 8 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 9 | I have been taking Woodworker now for some 10 years and have at last been inspired to write a letter replying to that of David Thomas in the December issue . |
| 10 | ‘ Had to see Elmore there about some instruments . |
| 11 | After a frightful red-headed youth with a beard had taken Hyacinth away to some dance , the party had broken up , though not before Grunte , who was tight , had made a speech about ‘ many years of close friendship … a happy ship … a united party ’ and much more of the same . |
| 12 | The ambiguities of the sixteenth century , when a mediaeval vagueness as to who had the right to send and receive ambassadors still to some extent persisted , were now a thing of the past . |
| 13 | COSI is thought to be part of a much broader technology effort now coming together that will likely involve IBM too in some way , though no-one we spoke to was prepared to elaborate further for fear of upsetting delicate negotiations . |
| 14 | The theoretical task , and in a significant sense secondary to the activity of producing " facts " , was to link observations together within some causal scheme . |
| 15 | We could still imagine that there is a set of laws that determines events completely for some supernatural being , who could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it . |
| 16 | The diagrams have explanations underneath for some sailing terminology . |
| 17 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 18 | Regular visitors to Switzerland will almost inevitably have changed trains there at some time or another . |