Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a special job Preston 's engaged on and I want to come to some arrangement with him — there should be room for both of us — if you would be good enough to tell me when your husband is likely to be back — " |
| 2 | First , I want to comment on some features of the hereditary mechanism which may prove to be characteristic of all living things , whether on this planet or elsewhere in the universe . |
| 3 | Now I want to look at some properties . |
| 4 | Here I want to focus on some examples from recent textbooks for O level and CSE courses . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to put in some shells and seaweed first . ’ |
| 6 | The Greens won 10–30 per cent in some 1977 municipals , so they expect to get onto some councils . |
| 7 | That speakers do introduce what they want to say via some form of personal reference has a noticeable effect on the structure of contributions in conversational discourse . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By working co-operatively , long-term , with the people around me , I hope to continue for some time yet . |
| 10 | By working co-operatively , longterm , with the people around me , I hope to continue for some time yet . |
| 11 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 12 | Meanwhile at Our Home the unspeakable ingrates seem bent on some sort of work-to-contract . |
| 13 | The old case authorities suggest that the nature of a share as property does not prevent such a course , but the more modern cases seem to incline towards some restrictions upon the use of votes where there is a conflict of interest involved . |
| 14 | In our work , we often come across abused children , and adults , who seem to exist in some kind of nether world , unable to express fear , anger or love and who forever , unable to have satisfying relationships , feel alone — disconnected from themselves and others around them . |
| 15 | Living snakes and lizards are highly varied , and manage to live in some environments ( e.g. dry deserts ) where the mammals are pushed to survive . |
| 16 | I wondered if it was you when we first got news of the Abbey — no insult just that some people get picked for some jobs . |
| 17 | ‘ You feel good being nominated for an Oscar , then you get turned into some kind of a loser when you do n't win . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | From long experience , Belinda 's younger brothers would have known in an instant by the crisp , deceptively mild tone that she was no longer fooling around , but unfortunately Greg Carey was n't possessed of this experience , so he said on a thick , purring note , ‘ Because you need to loosen up , get rid of some inhibitions . |
| 20 | As soon as I get settled in some place , it 's time to move on . |
| 21 | It is essentially a private event without witnesses and often survivors feel implicated in some way . |
| 22 | Several staff have expressed concern about the high level of workplace stress they feel exists in some sections of the Library . |
| 23 | False cases offset under-reporting to some extent . |
| 24 | They actually start to take responsibility for themselves and become empowered in some way . |
| 25 | erm the ladies who are a bit obese and get all the sympathy you get all so skin or just skinny and suddenly you try to put on some weight , you just ca n't . |
| 26 | Since the role of subjective risk is of particular importance in theories of driving , one part of this question is simply whether drivers are aware of subjective risk , either as a feeling which is occasionally present in immediately dangerous situations but otherwise non-existent ( consistent with a zero-risk theory of driving ) or as a continually fluctuating level which they can be aware of when questioned and which they attempt to match to some target level ( consistent with RHT ) . |
| 27 | There are many recorded instances of mass deaths of lemmings after a phase of population expansion , when they have apparently become subjected to some form of social stress that leads to their attempting to migrate across impassable barriers ( Elton , 1942 ) . |
| 28 | The second is that the components of language do not have meaning for us in virtue of standing for objects , of various ontological kinds , with which we become acquainted through some kind of ostensive definition . |
| 29 | And that I think led to some weaknesses . |
| 30 | Of course , these conditions do exist in some schools and in some classrooms already . |