Example sentences of "and [vb infin] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect she 'll let you and Oliver come and stay some time . |
| 2 | The task of the social scientist is to try and make some sense of any observable patterns and the motivations , whether unspoken or not , behind them . |
| 3 | And when the muttered reply , ‘ He 's … he 's gone on a trip to try and make some money so we could … could get married , ’ came from her shoulder , she pushed Jessie upwards , saying , ‘ Oh my God ! ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes I will have abandoned a painting , got really tired of it and feel it 's not getting anywhere , and you will come and make some remark that makes me look at it again and think : oh yes , I could just pull that one together . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll try and make some time . |
| 6 | " I 'll go and make some tea for us , " said Miranda in a small voice . |
| 7 | we 've got to go and buy some milk |
| 8 | We will go and buy some bedding plants , she had said yesterday , only an hour after her arrival . |
| 9 | There had been a snack-dispensing machine in the entrance to the stand , so she would go and buy some chocolate . |
| 10 | Sue and I decided that we ought to go out and buy some stationery . |
| 11 | Yeah , he dragged me all the way to London to go and buy some beef . |
| 12 | So this other wife tell had to go and steal some milk for the witch 's cow . |
| 13 | It concluded its deliberations with a series of ringing statements on the desirability of a united Europe , with some common institutions , within which ‘ the European states must transfer and merge some portion of their sovereign rights so as to secure common political and economic action for the integration and proper development of their common resources ’ . |
| 14 | Who knows , he may even feel well enough to get up and enjoy some lunch with you . ’ |
| 15 | You long to get away and enjoy some freedom , but circumstances beyond your control dictate otherwise . |
| 16 | He therefore had to work quickly and collect some information to take back to Burnell in London . |
| 17 | Amidst a diversity of close-up film analysis and theoretical arguments from all angles then , it might be useful to try and present some sort of an overview . |
| 18 | Forever while she breathes I 'll go and see and fetch some water , will you come ? |
| 19 | I 'll sit there and watch some guy and go , ‘ Man , the work that must have gone into that ! ’ and they 're just whizzing right along making it look easy , but at the same time it does n't make those hairs stand up . |
| 20 | Well shall we go through and do some clearing up then ? |
| 21 | I said , ‘ yes , jolly good , perhaps you can come and do some painting with the residents ’ . |
| 22 | Got ta try and do some transcription transcribing |
| 23 | He suggested that we should get together and do some writing , so I said yes — I mean , who would n't ? ! |
| 24 | erm so I mean for example with something like statistics that covers different techniques and activities from , you know , different books erm something like erm something like social most of it comes out of that which is a thing we did because people were experiencing difficulty with it so we thought well right we 'll , we 'll , we 'll sort of anchor the syllabus mostly to , you know , one particular book erm so different , different staff use different techniques , some people ha have drawn on a whole variety of things and , and , and some people have just drawn on one erm I think the main priority is to try and do some coursework though in your case erm |
| 25 | We have no fairy godfather or fairy godmother who will come along and give some money . |
| 26 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 27 | Okay , so to negotiate and achieve some sort of compromise what are your objectives ? |
| 28 | Well do you want , would you like to come and look some time with me ? |
| 29 | Do you wan na come and see some puppy ! |
| 30 | So , Howard could go and spend some money . |