Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of shearling rams , currently being prepared for sale this season , is widely considered to contain some of the best sheep the flock has ever produced . |
| 2 | First , Britain 's position in world trade in 1950 resulted from a temporary advantage since , despite enormous difficulties , she was better placed to make some immediate recovery from the effects of the world war than the devastated economies of Europe and Japan [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 3 | This involves finding a language for the goal of contemplative life — " I vate wele desyres to here some special poynt of luf of Jhesu Criste , and of contemplatyf lyfe " [ vate wele : know well ; here : hear ] ( 6.102 – 3.214 – 2 ) — to bridge the gap between doctrine and reality . |
| 4 | This list is by no means exhaustive and is only intended to illustrate some of the most commonplace reasons for the non-reporting of crime . |
| 5 | It is not necessary to use the form to make a defence , the defendant only needs to submit some document indicating that the claim is disputed . |
| 6 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 7 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 8 | Dexter smiled : Blanche had obviously decided to show some independence now that the press conference had begun . |
| 9 | She discussed the idea with her sister-in-law Mabel , and asked her if she would like to come along to help choose some suitable fabric . |
| 10 | I said , ‘ I 'd very much like to see some of her work . ’ |
| 11 | Right I suppose I 've better got to do some housework Gail . |
| 12 | The structures so produced have some properties of a linguistic analysis of the definitions and some properties of a semantic definition of word sense concepts , and they take the basic syntactic form of nested feature lists . |
| 13 | And although the names given of some of the boys arrested for these offences — David Stones and Arthur Gobbing , for example — suggest the possibility of a hoax , police reports repeatedly referred to ‘ this dangerous practice ’ and that ‘ the danger to the public seems sufficiently marked to warrant some special steps ’ . |
| 14 | The elephant and tapir of Sumatra and Borneo , the rhinoceros of Sumatra and the allied species of Java , the wild cattle of Borneo of the kind long supposed to be peculiar to Java , are now all known to inhabit some part or other of Southern Asia . |
| 15 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 16 | More often , however , they haunt that person alone and by so doing indicate some terrible tragedy is imminent . |
| 17 | I 'm saying that you know you , you should er perhaps try to establish some underlying principles to your policy . |
| 18 | So lets convert some per centages into decimals , because this is the trick that you were using , last time you were very good at it . |
| 19 | Such snobbery perhaps helps to explain some of the support which the Wesleyan tradition must have engendered , among people who found the ‘ spiritual sense ’ of faith a way of rebutting the patronising condescension of the ‘ men of reason ’ . |
| 20 | Erm I perhaps do have some sympathy for Harrogate 's position . |
| 21 | To do so means asking some questions about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the male compositors " trade union , the Scottish Typographical Association ( STA ) and in particular its Edinburgh branch , the Edinburgh Typographical Society ( ETS ) ; about the potential recruits for strike-breaking , whether these were non-union men , apprentice boys or women and girls ; and about the circumstances in which the first women crossed the threshold of Messrs Constable 's and Chambers 's offices in December 1872 or January 1873 . |
| 22 | It 's a question that their parents may also be unable to answer , so it 's important that students be given some idea of what it 's like to earn one 's living creatively as early as possible , and so help dispel some of the fear and disbelief that discussions about this ‘ odd ’ way of working always seem to produce . |
| 23 | The Pacific , as is surely now evident , is an Ocean which , while long trying to assume some kind of unity , is plagued by a grossly inconvenient diversity . |
| 24 | We did , of course , over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges , but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I can not see even Miss Kenton having been so forward . |
| 25 | It occurred to me first that she was playing some dangerous role — as in her old undercover days — perhaps trying to gain some sort of information or advantage . |
| 26 | Additionally , a very few people had failed to get what they wanted from one source , so had used some other source instead . |
| 27 | ‘ But we 've come to the conclusion that since not everybody 's ready for it , we 'd better start packaging some of our most popular strings both ways — individually in sixes , and collectively in one packet — and let players make up their own minds . |
| 28 | This is Ireland 's first official participation in the prestigious competition which involves 24 nations , and they are naturally hoping to find some sort of coordination and rhythm in the run-up to the World Cup Sevens in Edinburgh on April 16–18 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 30 | No one was moved to burn the place down and the teachers were not encouraged to beat the children : though I had my knuckles painfully rapped on various occasions when I had apparently failed to decode some mysterious message or other . |