Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] some " in BNC.

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1 In particular , this will show whether greater proximity has broken down some of the barriers which have traditionally existed between the two groups or , as some theorists have suggested , has led to a re-definition of their differences .
2 The bridge was filled in some twenty or thirty years ago when houses spread along this part of Swithland Lane .
3 The widely reported price differential between US and European software packages , has come down some , Gates said , but will continue to exist , while diminishing further .
4 No one was hurt , though several climbers were involved in the slide in Coire an Lochain , with one being carried down some 400ft .
5 He has also stumped up some of the cash ( together they contributed 30 per cent of the total package , the rest was provided by banks ) .
6 John Pain ( flying P3731 ) : ‘ This was a brawl with some 15 CR 42s in which the entire flight got mixed up some miles out to sea at about 18,000 feet between St. Paul 's Bay and Sliema .
7 Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another .
8 But you have looked up some history for me ?
9 I would therefore be grateful to learn from Benoit Rudloff , who is buying these 1700 ploughs or , as I suspect , respectfully suggest to Mr Rudloff that maybe has had picked up some duff information over the past two years ! !
10 When they returned with cameramen , the advance production team had picked up some local teenagers for the film .
11 But dogs can learn a lot by that age and may have picked up some very bad habits , so it is important that very basic training begins at eight weeks , and is increased in very gradual stages .
12 Also , he had picked up some rare Charles Trenet and Johnny Halliday musichips .
13 She has picked up some driving tricks from the SAS .
14 Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons .
15 I did n't know what crows ate , so picked up some cabbage leaves and a lump of congealed moussaka from a dish in the Corporal 's kitchen .
16 Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) .
17 He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’
18 Benny will certainly have picked up some of these things to examine them , and she 'll have absorbed the stuff through her fingertips . ’
19 What I want to say is I picked up some information in Gorstone about MacQuillan funding a terrorist group in Northern Ireland .
20 Obviously he assumed that she had picked up some instant Romeo , and it was clear from his tone and expression that he condemned her as cheap and shallow .
21 In group A the Paper Tigers with their amazing bouncing ball have lifted their rounders difference to great heights while Dr Blobby and the Blobettes have at last picked up some points from a game , which means that all teams this year have managed to win at least one point .
22 I 've just picked up some words and phrases . ’
23 Athelstan carefully picked up some splinters of wood .
24 Now today because it 's a little windy we 've rolled up some of the sail out of the way to make it easier for you
25 As the corporations were wound up some of the houses passed into private ownership .
26 Sorted out some more work to be photocopied .
27 I have looked out some , and they are marvellous .
28 Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop .
29 There was no hope for United after that but they battled on … and at least won back some of their lost pride with a goal from sub Paul Wanless …
30 Anyway , at half time , Geoff 's standing right at the back of the London Road — and at the back there you can see down to the tea place underneath because some bugger 's smashed out some of the asbestos bit along the back .
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