Example sentences of "[verb] at some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The secular decline in the Sinn Féin vote — from a peak of 13.4 per cent in 1983 to 10 per cent on April 9 — meant that Mr Adams ' seat would surely fall at some point . |
2 | This is why all of us will doubt at some point , whatever it is that we believe . |
3 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
4 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
5 | Even in the throes of laughing at some remark passed by Grace Bird , Bunny watched Geoffrey . |
6 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
7 | In the embryos of most insects evident rudiments of paired abdominal appendages appear at some stage during development . |
8 | Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor . |
9 | Written by Sarah Daniels , it is being performed by Clean Break , a theatre company mounting professional productions performed by women who have been through the criminal justice system , including ex-prisoners , ex-probationers and those committed at some time to secure observation and psychiatric units . |
10 | Cashline machines will also be installed at some JET service stations if talks with another oil company — Conoco — are successful . |
11 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
12 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
13 | Almost every child , I imagine , has at some time owned a much-loved Teddy Bear . |
14 | ‘ Obviously I think about it , every East German has at some time thought about it , or still does . |
15 | Burnage Court , the big house in the picture hidden in trees at the end , has at some time been cruelly treated , with badly applied half-timbering on the ground floor and tile-hanging on the first . |
16 | Everyone in nursing has at some time experienced the abuse of power by someone more senior , and has been hurt by it , yet the system is difficult to modify . |
17 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |
18 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
19 | That old bugger Grunte had not included him in the invitation to dine at some poncy joint called La Noblesse , the smartest part of the Hospitality Inn . |
20 | Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar . |
21 | Over half of the staff of 62 were interviewed at some point , many more than once — a total of 66 interviews altogether . |
22 | I mean the idea of course is to try at some stage and run a trainer trainer 's course , so that we expand the number of people who can who can do the training . |
23 | This was a little unfortunate , the topic being one close to his lordship 's heart and one he was inclined to explicate at some length . |
24 | When the train stopped at some town in Kent I got off . |
25 | He will start on the substitutes ' bench and Souness said : ‘ The chances are good people will see Barnes involved at some stage . ’ |
26 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
27 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
28 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
29 | We shall consider at some length below circumstances under which this condition is met even when enforcement through the courts is not available . |
30 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |