Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No cold water cos I want to some Ribena before I have a chocolate . |
| 2 | How could I dictate to some amanuensis all the love I feel for my darling Lily , the loveliest flower … . |
| 3 | And I mean I su everyone has to resign themselves I think to some extent but the fact that they are playing a role within their work situation . |
| 4 | I noted the point , erm I think to some extent we probably can now move forward to H two , in in a proper sense , but I 'll ask Mr Davis er A if he wishes to give some reaction to the last few comments er and then your lead in to H two . |
| 5 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 6 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 7 | I doubt if that is so I think to some extent we may be in what we are saying and doing , feeding the current which says that nobody in national politics could conceivably be honest or decent or competent in any way whatsoever , that to be a Member of the House of Commons or to be a Member of the Government is somehow to have the mark of put upon them . |
| 8 | So I think to some extent what one needs to do is to try and get at the governments , rather that at individual timber producers . |
| 9 | To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility . |
| 10 | If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs ( |
| 11 | She succeeded to some extent when a most magnificent full-blossomed magnolia tree caught her eye . |
| 12 | And you know to some extent it 's just time and keeping yourself ticking over that 's going to get that aspect of things better . |
| 13 | That she belonged to some time , when I was a little kid , that had somehow been barred from my memory . |
| 14 | Rosa cast an eye at her mother 's frowning back where she attended to some task and tried to exchange a glance of impatience with Tommaso . |
| 15 | Of course , you ca n't think exactly like a keyboard or a sax player would when you 're playing the guitar — the instrument will always shape the way you think to some extent . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been instructed by the NEC to recommend opposition , ’ she said to some laughter . |
| 17 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 18 | In day-to-day contact with clients and with the community at larger he or she becomes to some degree locked into the support of individuals and groups that may be antipathetic to the employing agency . |
| 19 | If you have a hundred people , as you say , well you can do all sorts of things ; you can take a vote , or you can argue it out , until you come to some kind of consensus . |
| 20 | Was n't she entitled to some time of her own after a busy week 's teaching and little free time on Saturday ? |
| 21 | That 's why I would expect to see and we planned to some extent , we may have under-planned an increase in costs . |
| 22 | We suffered to some extent too . |
| 23 | We do , however , state our criteria for the selection of books , and we refer to some book guides which teachers may find helpful . |
| 24 | This type , which we find to some extent in English , clearly emphasized differences rather than shared properties , and Morgan labelled it ‘ descriptive ’ . |
| 25 | We listened to some karaoke tapes this afternoon . |
| 26 | After dinner we listened to some music on records , which included Mozart 's ‘ Oboe Quartet ’ ; and when we asked him if he would like to hear some more , he replied quietly that he was ‘ insatiable ’ . |
| 27 | We went to some friend 's house , erm , and I , th this was ages ago , I 'd erm , done some wedding |
| 28 | ‘ We went to some trouble to explain the administrative , advertising and fundraising costs , ’ says John Tame . |
| 29 | Although still biased in favour of him we do to some extent begin to change our opinion and perhaps look further behind his lies and inconsistencies . |
| 30 | ‘ Could n't we come to some arrangement ? |