Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she has boiled some books , but that is another matter altogether . |
| 2 | Allen stresses that HAH , which takes about 400 patients a year and has received some help from Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts , enables some people to by-pass the local hospital altogether . |
| 3 | For this reason , the suggestion is made , and it has received some sympathy within the profession , that the audit partner , but not the firm , should rotate . |
| 4 | Since 1981 , the Centre has received some funding from the city which now provides an annual budget of SFr390,000 ( £177,250 ; $248,000 ) , covering almost exactly one half of its operating costs of SFr 800,000 . |
| 5 | Even Craig Cwm Trwsgl in Cwm Pennant , home of the classic Exterminating Angel , has received some attention with Lloyd-Jones and Clive Stephenson adding Blinded By The Light , E4 5b , 6a , to the crag ; this route being a counter-diagonal to Day Of Reckoning . |
| 6 | Gossip has received some attention in anthropology . |
| 7 | The figure has now been recognised as a late fifteenth-century masterpiece and it has aroused some excitement in the art world , but there is still perplexity as to its author . |
| 8 | The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall ; most notably , it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany . |
| 9 | Firstly , she needs to carry some weight to maintain her power . |
| 10 | ‘ It needs to acquire some teeth from somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Every fieldworker needs to acquire some insight into the basic infrastructure of the society he is studying . |
| 12 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 13 | Nearer home , the LAFC has undertaken some self-examination regarding the unnecessary use of two Counsel and excessive claims for legal aid fees . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's time we had an outstanding international , ’ said the English coach who , without any sour grapes after Wales 's win at Cardiff , desperately wants to see some back play , sadly missing in most of the Five Nations games so far . |
| 15 | What 's more , Bishop is n't in it just for the money , he wants to see some blood spilt — even that of his friends … |
| 16 | I look up , aware that Mrs Tamm has placed some document silently beside the cuttings book . |
| 17 | Stuart has given some thought to the ground that needs to be covered , although nothing is final . |
| 18 | In clearly stating the terms of conditions of sale , SLAD has given some backbone to the dealers ' frequently invoked claim that they ‘ guarantee their goods ( unlike the auction houses ) ’ . |
| 19 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 20 | The Commission has given some guidance on how to distinguish between cooperative and concentrative operations in a published notice . |
| 21 | Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel . |
| 22 | Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own . |
| 23 | He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another . |
| 24 | ‘ The cup suits us in so many ways and at least it has permitted some stability and provided a focal point in the absence of a league challenge . ’ |
| 25 | He has to bear some responsibility for what happened . ’ |
| 26 | It is true that the industry has to bear some costs . |
| 27 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 28 | Royston CAB has come some way towards solving the shelf space problem and the updating costs of holding more than one information system in a bureau . |
| 29 | The importance of the shift for the purposes of this book is that the growing competition among states-as-suitors means that government has shed some powers , but taken on others . |
| 30 | C Itoh Electronics , the trading house subsidiary which is one of the players in the Japanese X-terminal market has shed some light on last month 's story that Sun was considering building its own X-terminal ( UX No 399 ) . |