Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] of some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie tried to think of some way to break it . |
| 2 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 3 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 4 | Finance can be available from the Housing Corporation , building societies and local authorities , from whom land can also sometimes be acquired at a reasonable price if councils want to dispose of some building land unwanted because of reductions in their own building programmes — perhaps at prices below market value if restrictions on resale are accepted . |
| 5 | Her husband gave out she 'd perished of some wasting disease , and duly married someone else , less beautiful but more docile , who gave him twelve children . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I shall try to think of some way of showing how grateful I am for your bravery . |
| 7 | It is simply something that must be done ; and , in the same way , I had to get rid of some woman , tip the scales back in the other direction . |
| 8 | I was trying to get rid of some rubbish this morning all garden stuff , you know the garden . |
| 9 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 10 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 11 | How odd , Alec thought , I 've been thinking about her all the time since I came here , trying to think of some way of seeing her again . |
| 12 | She wound down the window , trying to think of some way of putting things right . |
| 13 | I delayed switching the computer off while I racked my brain trying to think of some way of saving them , but there was none . |