Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the patient is likely to continue coughing for some time after the antibiotics have been stopped , and the sputum that is produced when the patient coughs will be found to contain numerous pus cells on microscopic examination . |
| 2 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 3 | Respondents are selected according to some sampling procedure to be representative of some group , collectivity , attribute or process . |
| 4 | Recovery takes about a month but bouts of fever and liverishness can keep returning for some while . |
| 5 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 6 | Ours have needed replacing for some time , ’ he added with a touch of grimness . |
| 7 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 8 | Keeps nattering about some demo he decydes is gon na make it for him . |
| 9 | Well I , I just thought perhaps erm , you know , if there was any erm sort of up-front to this idea of you know going through some sort of dialectical model career towards socialism . |
| 10 | Settling down because wood keeps moving for some time . |
| 11 | She hopes to continue dancing for some time before returning to a career in embalming . |
| 12 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 13 | She said it was about time I started bringin' in some dosh , ‘ specially now the ole man 's on short time . |
| 14 | But generally it is a good idea to start writing in some form as soon as you can . |
| 15 | False cases offset under-reporting to some extent . |
| 16 | When I was working in Australia I went swimming with some missionary friends near Darwin . |
| 17 | I took hold of the snow hook , but to release it meant hauling in some slack on the line . |
| 18 | You might go hoping for some insight into the goat-hair experiences of Professor Peters or Evans-Pritchard , but , after the initial polite questions , you are asked if you have heard the news from Iran . |
| 19 | The first of the Annual Reports under the new regime is perhaps of special interest and deserves quoting at some length : |
| 20 | If I ever got talking to some man in a pub , it was more than his life was worth . |
| 21 | Manufacturers can no longer charge according to some idea of ‘ value ’ but must compete on price and performance . |
| 22 | Harriet was sitting working at some petit-point on the evening of Monday , June 5th . |
| 23 | A few minutes later they had acknowledged Mr Bryant and his daughter outside their house , and then trudged home and stood chatting for some time on the doorstep . |