Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] some [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 2 | The primary value of privatizing marketable services and contracting out some of the inputs to the production of non-marketable services is to reduce the monopoly power of bureaus and review committees and provide services at a price known to the representatives of middle-demand groups . |
| 3 | Now when the was opened , er it was decided to er to put in a line , erm just near to connect with , and pick up some of the trade for the for Railway , cos the or the had already decided to get some from that end as well . |
| 4 | And let's just , as I say , eavesdrop and pick up some of the things that Nicodemus learned , and things that we can learn . |
| 5 | SCO 's Doug Michaels is off to China to try and work out some of the copying and pirating issues , claiming that up to one third of PCs in the People 's Republic run SCO Xenix . |
| 6 | To be expected to relinquish this power , and give up some of the spoils to the likes of SARU , who had been at the forefront in demanding the non-participation of the Springboks in international competition since it was ‘ impossible to play normal sport in an abnormal society ’ , must , understandably , be a difficult to swallow . |
| 7 | The £25 million cost will be met by raising prices and selling off some of the little-used hostels . |
| 8 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 9 | Sir Anthony Barrowclough 's report could , indeed , be viewed in those terms and holding back some of the more sensitive parts would be consistent with the Serious Fraud Office 's efforts to restrain some of the most recent civil court hearings on the affair . |
| 10 | ‘ The time has now come for me to act and sort out some of the players . |
| 11 | And erm we wo n't have time to go through all of these afterwards , but if I hand a few round to you , what I 'd like you to do is er just have a go and jot down some of the er solutions that you would provide . |
| 12 | But you 've probably noticed the ad count has risen considerably in recent months , due to the fact that we 've upped the pages to five and edited out some of the waffle ( which the waffler pays for , I might add ) in order to ensure that most ads make it into the desired issue . |
| 13 | The boys eased themselves carefully out of the back of the car and pulled out some of the stores with care . |
| 14 | ( Ethridge : 181 ) The damage caused by the Cultural Revolution , destruction of books for example , was also costly to repair and swallowed up some of the funds . |
| 15 | Instead he took a curtain call , and at the last minute before he was to slide behind the curtains behind the bar , he reached for the flowers thrown to him earlier and broke off some of the roses , swaggering round the circle of admirers handing out the roses to the women . |
| 16 | But with the interest bill now well over £600m a year , it is surely now getting to the stage where there is some doubt whether revenue will be sufficient to cover running costs and pay back some of the monumental debt . |
| 17 | The aim is to ease the stress of house-buying by giving advice and taking on some of the workload . |
| 18 | Quite recently many corporations have discovered that they were considerably over-insured and that by re-structuring their insurance and taking over some of the risks their costs could be reduced . |
| 19 | My aim today is to look at government policy on employment and training , and point up some of the issues as they affect people with disabilities . |
| 20 | We will now examine each item in turn and point up some of the main arguments . |
| 21 | Agree on the product to be ‘ sold ’ and draft out some of the questions you will each want to ask , before you begin . |
| 22 | So called hotting and joyriding around some of the Oxford Estates with stolen cars has contributed to a massive increase in carcrime . |
| 23 | The display is entitled ‘ Child 's Play ’ and showing off some of the exhibits are ( from left ) : Patricia Flanagan , acting chief executive , Craftworks ; Valerie Wherry , LEDU ; Katie O'Toole , of Katie Blue , Ormeau Avenue , and Freda Robinson , of Arabesque Braids , Knock . |
| 24 | It appealled and won back some of the money . |
| 25 | Yes , just widening it and straightening out some of the bends . |
| 26 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 27 | The former Wimbledon striker said : ‘ We 've got to start digging in and dish out some of the rough stuff . |
| 28 | Kit Everard had calculated that the Rebecca made a sitting target ; she would draw the enemy and pin down some of the fighting men , on both sides . |
| 29 | Maintenance engineers right and check over some of the process plant on the press floor . |
| 30 | ‘ The Government is trying to promote small businesses and to cut out some of the bureaucracy and red tape which is strangling us . ’ |