Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 2 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 3 | His Mother tells me that he is of a mechanical turn , and I know that he has made some progress in mathematics . |
| 4 | We have been encouraged to hear from the president of the National Licensed Victuallers Association that he has seen some softening in the brewers ' approach since our meetings with them . |
| 5 | He has to bear some responsibility for what happened . ’ |
| 6 | He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another . |
| 7 | At the same time , he has wandered some distance from his kin , in spirit . |
| 8 | If , after that , you ca n't get it to live amicably in a domestic situation , there is not much hope left , although Graham stressed he has had some success with temperament improvements by castrating the males . |
| 9 | For example , it is important for an inexperienced solo pilot to avoid a field landing until he has had some training in how to tackle one . |
| 10 | Already , he has had some effect in cooling cultural animosities , in ‘ bringing the ghetto to the suburb and the suburb to the ghetto ’ . |
| 11 | And he says he has acquired some skill in communicating technical ideas that he uses in presentations for Lucas . |
| 12 | Such a cleric has long recognised that his personal belief is not the same thing as historical evidence , and he has effected some kind of personal reconciliation between the two — a reconciliation which , to a greater or lesser degree , manages to accommodate both . |
| 13 | I imagine he wants to put some pressure on you . |
| 14 | The worker , we concluded , is caught in that he wants to make some investment in work , even though the ends sought may be quite diverse by different workers , and , at the same time , is always caught in a situation where he has to experience feelings of resentment . |
| 15 | He was standing with three friends and telling a tale in which he 'd conned some adversary into covering a dubious investment . |
| 16 | The man had n't grouted the tiles in properly he 'd used some sort of rough old cement and the water was just going through and staying there ! |
| 17 | He told her he 'd drawn some money from the bank . |
| 18 | He could handle the fast rise now , although he 'd had some trouble along the way . |
| 19 | He wished he 'd got some sleep on the bed when the humans were studying him ; it had looked quite comfortable . |
| 20 | Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again . |
| 21 | He seemed to have some fellow-feeling with its weariness . |
| 22 | He needed to do some shopping for cleaning materials and other basic necessities and decided to go . |
| 23 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 24 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 25 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 26 | Now he hopes to find some compensation in his forthcoming testimonial match . |
| 27 | Now he hopes to find some compensation in his forthcoming testimonial match . |
| 28 | Even finding food was difficult , as Filon , the Empress 's secretary , discovered when he went to find some soup for her in an attempt to make her eat after nearly 36 hours with virtually nothing : |
| 29 | He managed to convey some contempt for the TAS and its operations at the same time . |
| 30 | In the event , he did make some contribution to Toby and Laura 's education . |