Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cecilia tried to gather together some dignity . |
| 2 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 3 | Yeah well she she sleeps she goes down some time between eight thirty and eleven . |
| 4 | Special offers involving a discount , on the other hand , can both promote the product and bring in some revenue . |
| 5 | You are more independent , you 're contributing , not only helping and doing in the home but you 're bringing in some money as well . |
| 6 | For once the Lovejoy actor 's old-fashioned charm deserted him as he plucked up courage to pass on some advice on her marriage lines . |
| 7 | I am writing to you to pass on some information regarding Clown Loaches . |
| 8 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 9 | Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories , but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger , or the Clearances , or just to a vague morass of names , Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs ? |
| 10 | And then wants just some form of a business plan , which |
| 11 | Your best setting for demonstrating the art of negotiation is the one in which you and your son or daughter disagree over some issue . |
| 12 | He drew off some fluid and relieved the pressure , then went back to the office , where he shook his head gloomily as he pored over the report that had come back with her from Seapark . |
| 13 | After a while , deciding that discretion was preferable , they moved off some distance into the desert parallel to the road . |
| 14 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 15 | Why do n't you go back to your own surgery and try to drum up some work ? ’ |
| 16 | Tom heated up some water on the range for the dirty dishes . |
| 17 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |
| 18 | Ronni dredged up some sanity from the depths of her half-stunned brain , detached her lips from Guido 's and pushed him away . |
| 19 | But you have looked up some history for me ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | What I want to say is I picked up some information in Gorstone about MacQuillan funding a terrorist group in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | We 're trying to work up some passion for the pageant . |
| 26 | I decided to try out some opening ideas : The storm has played Grandma 's footsteps with the terrified child ( that 's me ) . |
| 27 | ‘ What I want you to do is to find out some information from another solicitor . ’ |
| 28 | I think that er we are probably some years of and therefore whilst we make indulge our service in the next few moments it each other er we are eventually and then perhaps going through a convenient route er and thrashing out some sort of profit margin . |
| 29 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 30 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |