Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 2 | I asked in some surprise . |
| 3 | I think that it would be helpful now if I described in some detail what the effect of the banding arrangements will be , as there has been considerable misunderstanding of the provisions . |
| 4 | Until this point , of course , I had believed myself quite alone and I turned in some surprise . |
| 5 | I mean , I believe in some force , but we make our own destiny … |
| 6 | Since I had taken her from her people , I felt in some degree responsible for seeing them together again . |
| 7 | And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . |
| 8 | I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire . |
| 9 | I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! " |
| 10 | I indulged in some self-analysis . |
| 11 | In new Zealand I listened in some amusement to a heated discussion abut the diabolical liberty Milford Sound aerodrome was taking , putting up their landing charge to $7.60 ( £2.30 ) . |
| 12 | I think in some way here , with this particular situation as okay we , we go into the question of the house now the house should n't be the issue here . |
| 13 | To obtain a more glossy finish I mixed in some Gloss Medium whilst painting . |
| 14 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 15 | An account written by someone participating in some event or controversy may give a far more partial view than the carefully researched , balanced interpretation of a later historian who has sifted and weighed up all available evidence . |
| 16 | I wrote in some detail about the Design Controller , including combining programs , in the October 1991 to January 1992 issues and these are available from Machine Knitting Monthly . |
| 17 | I have in some sort made myself a party to your situation , and it will go hard with my conscience if you find yourself no better blessed than in your old condition . |
| 18 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 19 | Recent reports following scandals and appalling practice have made recommendations on how to improve the service , most of which remain in some minister 's waste bin . |
| 20 | We can avoid reference to transitivity by saying that there must be one and only one element which stands in some power of R to all the other members of the set . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens . |
| 23 | It is tempting , too tempting in fact , to read into this more ideologically restrained account a certain disillusionment with communism and communist party politics which prefigures in some way Nizan 's break from the party a few months later . |
| 24 | Erm somebody comes in some prat comes in to your garage and he 's telling |
| 25 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 26 | ‘ You believe me ? ’ she asked in some astonishment . |
| 27 | ‘ Going to Slane is funny ? ’ she asked in some bewilderment . |
| 28 | Kathryn Cullen of Swansea is sure that she lives in some capacity in World War II . |
| 29 | Our samples were no exception : Table 5.1 takes a loose definition of ‘ carer ’ and shows — for the three points in time — whether the dementia sufferer lived with someone who helped in some way to care for him or her , and if not , how frequently he or she was visited by someone on an informal caring basis . |
| 30 | She looks in some detail at the process by which the counter-revolutionary attack on women 's liberation took place . |