Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 2 | A practical outcome from this incident was a new pair of deck shoes for Marty who had been campaigning for a replacement from Stores Branch for some time . |
| 3 | Fabia awoke on Friday with a smile on her face , and lay for some while with thoughts of Ven in her head . |
| 4 | I crept in beside him and lay for some time with throbbing head . |
| 5 | Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason . |
| 6 | Introduced populations now feral in southern England probably account for some Sussex records , making the status of truly wild birds very difficult to assess . |
| 7 | Filter tip cigarettes , which account for some 97% of cigarettes sales in the UK , yield less tar than plain cigarettes although some filter brands yield more carbon monoxide . |
| 8 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 9 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 10 | First of all turn one 's back on the bloody war , then qualify for some career . |
| 11 | They should only be used on paths , etc , or to clear a derelict patch of ground that you want to clear a derelict patch of ground that you want to clear but not replant for some time . |
| 12 | Planning has been taking place on this restructure for some months now with close liaison between RAFM and the Aircraft Salvage and Transportation Flight at Abingdon , who will be responsible for all of the dismantling and moving of the airframes . |
| 13 | This was a complete departure from the pattern of the learned journal in which papers are refereed and polished , and then appear after some months ; it brought rapid publication of results , and Crookes also encouraged speculative papers which the staid , and Baconian , Chemical Society would not put into its Journal . |
| 14 | Lastly , always sleep with some ventilation in bedrooms to prevent night-time condensation there ; if it 's too cold to have the window ajar , then leave the bedroom door open instead . |
| 15 | As against this view , however , Jensen and Murphy suggest with some plausibility that ‘ there are strong political and organizational forces that tend to define success in dimensions other than shareholder wealth and exert pressures for actions that reduce firm value . |
| 16 | After the Coniston mines were started , the miners , despite the convenience of a place of worship in Coniston itself used the Hawkshead church of St. Michael and All Angels , and as may be expected , their names appear with some frequency in the registers . |
| 17 | During the early 1840's the following girls appear with some regularity in the accounts : Mary Briggs 6d. a day , Hannah Cowper 6d , Hannah and Susannah Kempe 5d. & 6d. , Sarah Lawton 5d. , Hannah Smith 6d. , Sarah Tomlinson 6d. , Mary Thompson 6d. , Mary Ann Townson 6d. , and Agnes and Hannah Woodburn 6d. and 5d . |
| 18 | Do not merely stare at facts which you hope to remember , but see if you can devise a memory-jogger by arranging them so that the initials form another word which , perhaps , you associate with some experience in your life . |
| 19 | The assessment is like assembling a jigsaw into which pieces fit with some inevitability . |
| 20 | The tubers should n't touch each other — sit them in the hollows of egg boxes , ‘ eyes ’ upwards in a cool , frost-free place with some light . |
| 21 | In any case , Mr Farraday seized the opportunity to grin broadly at me and say with some deliberation : |
| 22 | US foreign aid , the authors say with some irony , has contributed greatly to the ‘ modernization of Third World poverty ’ . |
| 23 | The beginnings of the style appear in some ivories from the temple of Artemis at Ephesus . |
| 24 | From time immemorial children have raised playthings , particularly dolls , to a place in their lives not unlike the place that ‘ gods ’ occupy in some aspects of the lives of adults . |
| 25 | Is there any danger that erm that it could happen more , er that you could have the same happening say in Flats as a similar thing happening say in erm more middle class areas , such as , yet erm there being more risk of of it of it of erm parents losing the child , say in some areas such as Flats , and yet in , |
| 26 | The researchers say in some cases the after effects can compare with those suffered by survivors of major tragedies like the Zebrugree disaster . |
| 27 | They lose their nous ( and , as they say in some quarters , their ‘ bottle ’ ) . |
| 28 | If two people meet socially , face to face , sooner or later one of them will speak , or acknowledge in some way the presence of the other — even if it 's only a nod . |
| 29 | The discoveries mentioned there of some of the world 's best mathematicians should whet the appetite for , and also place in some kind of perspective , the mathematics covered in Chapters 1 through 6 . |
| 30 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |