Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 2 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 3 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 4 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 5 | Photojournalism and the birth of photography are briefly touched on , Context and Ambiguity expanded on in some depth , ethics briefly considered and a fair selection of illustrations from the exhibition are included , including Robert Capa 's The Last Man to die , Leipzig , Germany and Chris Steele-Perkins Famine in Karamoja Province , Uganda , images that are almost commonplace today . |
| 6 | When parents ceased to be available , primitive man could well have felt the loss , and the need to transfer the dependence elsewhere and this led eventually to some form of imagined substitute , or ‘ god ’ as the surrogate . |
| 7 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage . |
| 9 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 10 | She 's goes along to some illustration out of book and er |
| 11 | The 1947 Electricity Act laid down in some detail procedures for matters such as capital authorisations from the Ministry and the relative spheres of interest of Central Authority and Area Boards , but on the major questions of business policy the industry had a relatively free hand , subject only to a requirement to consult the Minister on matters of broad policy . |
| 12 | Each device is explained below in some detail , followed by an attempt to explore its relevance to translation . |
| 13 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 15 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 16 | But there is this thing that all of the forms are in the intellect and all of the forms ah are in the intellect and all of the forms do somehow weave together into some sort of unitary thing . |
| 17 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 18 | for Community law does not exist only in some faraway place but forms part of our national legal system . |
| 19 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 20 | ONE allowance which looks almost certain to disappear altogether at some point in the not-too-distant future , judging from its treatment in the Budget , is the married couple 's allowance , or MCA . |
| 21 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 22 | He would sit there all day doing this , sleeping sometimes in his chair but never tuning off , trying to make all these pieces of television fit together in some way . |
| 23 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 24 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |
| 25 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 26 | When a basalt flow has cooled sufficiently for some sort of crust to form , one of two possible things can happen . |
| 27 | In spite of this , there is plenty of scope for what is sought to be greatly reduced ; it is also possible for the permission to be limited in time , in other words for the development , building and/or use to be permitted only until some date in the future . |
| 28 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 29 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 30 | Herbert Read , in a conversation with Stephen Spender during this period , suggested that Eliot was lacking in affection for " perhaps everyone " and that he wished " to slink away into some corner and die " . |