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 . |