Example sentences of "[noun sg] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Warenne was recommended to use a ford some distance below the narrow bridge , but opted instead for a quicker , decisive attack over the bridge . |
| 2 | Thus it gives the retailer some immunity from intrabrand competition , as discussed above , and as a first-order effect increases the retailer 's margin . |
| 3 | I wan na deck some people ! |
| 4 | There is a pool ( from 1 June ) in the surrounding park ( swimming caps compulsory ) and the bedrooms , in a separate building some yards from the castle , are ultra modern with telephone , TV and mini-bar . |
| 5 | Plainly , since he had been aware that she had ‘ run away ’ from him , he must have still been in Prague that morning , and must have returned to that hotel suite some time after she 'd left . |
| 6 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But I might just feign insanity some day and come back for another cup of that damned fine coffee . ’ |
| 8 | Rock ‘ n ’ rail Some months before the troubles developed in East Germany , one of the world 's more arcane organisations , the Ireland-German Democratic Friendship Society , announced plans to celebrate in Dublin the 40th birthday of their comrades ' dictatorship in the East . |
| 9 | I 'd likeaaa somE toilet rollsxxx pleaseaaa … ! |
| 10 | Tom Otterness of the allegory of greed got himself a lot of unfortunate notoriety some years ago by shooting a dog as a work of performance art . |
| 11 | The 1989 collapse of Keating 's California-based Lincoln S&L [ see p. 37405 ] was one of the most expensive single failures , costing the US taxpayer some $2,600 million . |
| 12 | In the 1991/92 financial year , the 900-strong watchdog saved the taxpayer some £200m , including a £30m a year reduction in the running costs of the Ministry of Defence 's service quarters , £12m recovered by the Inland Revenue through revised procedures on small company tax relief , and a £1.7m recovery arising from the Property Services Agency 's 1990/91 audit . |
| 13 | Interactivity in an information system gives the user some influence over access to the information and a degree of control over the outcomes of using the system . |
| 14 | His final contribution to Doctor Who was as Director on the four-part ‘ The Space Museum ’ story some months later . |
| 15 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 16 | They have all taken on board some advocacy objectives , trying to represent users of services effectively in planning and other decisions . |
| 17 | There was a little tentative transit-taking on board some yachts , but most dispensed with esoteric racing rites and held back from the melee to claim clean air and water . |
| 18 | Since joining the Board some years ago , the Labour representative has attended only one Board Meeting and rarely apologises . |
| 19 | Indeed , ERM entry was accompanied by confident predictions that the economy would benefit from an eight to nine months honeymoon period that would see key indicators — notably inflation and interest rates — improving in time for a general election some time in 1991 . |
| 20 | A ‘ commercial operation but not run for commercial values ’ , it made a conscious decision some years ago to recruit the ‘ best people available ’ . |
| 21 | We made a very definite decision some years ago to make the Gardener Centre look towards the community as a whole , rather than just make it a university toy , or part of the formal academic programme . |
| 22 | Staff will recall that Penny Carter , a casual part-time member of staff in Foreign Books , appealed for money some time ago to support an evangelising trip to Russia . |
| 23 | Money some time obviously . ’ |
| 24 | Got to give mummy , money some mummy . |
| 25 | For example , long after the News International judgement some authorities had still not reinstated the The Times newspaper , and the defence was , perhaps correctly , that they could no longer afford the subscription . |
| 26 | But because the earth is tilted a bit some parts of the globe get longer days in the summer and longer nights in winter . |
| 27 | Thus for a given exposure some pixels will be seen and others will not . |
| 28 | This is not as wild a question as you might suppose in a country where every Buddhist is a monk some time in their lives , and can slip into the habit again at any time . |
| 29 | Edward Pearce 's Sketch Some people really should put a sock in it |
| 30 | Choosing a field some distance upwind on the other hand , is not such a good idea . |