Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] some [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The cup suits us in so many ways and at least it has permitted some stability and provided a focal point in the absence of a league challenge . ’ |
| 2 | He has done some showing and I hope to show him again next year , but feel that his extensively pink muzzle detracts from his appearance . |
| 3 | However , Age Concern has done some research and found that the percentage increase in the average income of the lowest quintile of pensioners over the period 1978 to 1988 is 15 per cent . |
| 4 | There is a problem with gripping which has shown some improvement but which is apt to be most problematical when , for instance , she is concentrating hard at her computer . |
| 5 | Everyone has had some disappointment or failure . |
| 6 | He says ; Every child has had some training and they show me that they know what it is all about and at the end of the day they have saved a life . |
| 7 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
| 8 | Erm the electricity every every bit of wire has got some resistance and erm electricity will be struggling through , warms it up . |
| 9 | takes over , Blackburn push it wide , at last has found some space but comes across to try and close him down , support just behind from , it 's a woeful cross from and it 's easily cleared by Shrewsbury Town right up to the centre circle , where it 's taken on the chest of Nicky . |
| 10 | The move towards harmonised VAT systems , for example , has caused some organisation and information technology headaches . |
| 11 | I could swear this calf has eaten some irritant or corrosive poison . " |
| 12 | Mark has changed some money and gone off to get them all Diet Cokes . |
| 13 | When we went to Portugal there was er a lass , we 'd saved some money and I said , I said do n't spend it all |
| 14 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 15 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 16 | I could have saved some diesel and ‘ phoned . |
| 17 | The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid . |
| 18 | Clint may have felt some pity but he did n't want her back . |
| 19 | The boat trip should have provided some respite but it is difficult to see how . |
| 20 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 21 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 22 | Dave had foreseen some difficulty and had moved back left to get into a better position to assist Steve , just below him . |
| 23 | The Roller , however , had developed some fault and had been left in the hands of the Grand Hotel 's garage mechanic . |
| 24 | His body had regained some warmth and the sleep had relaxed him . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 26 | Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten . |
| 27 | By late afternoon the FT-SE 100 had made some progress and closed 26.2 up at 2732.4 , with news of the GATT deal coming after the end of trading . |
| 28 | He had murmured some excuse but had been unable to refuse an invitation to supper at the vicarage during the coming week . |
| 29 | Ellen had bought some melon and coffee on her way to the boatyard and we were eating a late breakfast in Wavebreaker 's cockpit . |
| 30 | Cheese and biscuits , we 've got some cheese and biscuits at home ai n't we ? |