Example sentences of "[verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Sybil lived carefully , borrowed cars to save renting them , accepted hospitality , incurred and endured some cutting remarks of the wealthy but kept steadfast to their aim to make some money and run back to London to act and feed the security bank . |
| 2 | Having been to a coeducational school , she did not find men a novelty , and in theory ought to have been able to discriminate better than Liz ( who endured some fairly dreadful experimental evenings in her search for entertainment ) , but her natural kindness made it almost impossible for her to refuse any overture , however offensive , however louche . |
| 3 | Though Asian airlines experienced some Gulf-war decline in traffic , they escaped the near-collapse suffered by many American and European carriers . |
| 4 | Chiswick experienced some changes in 1962 , one of which was the withdrawal of all the trolley-buses , which were replaced by the very popular Routemaster buses . |
| 5 | Sadly , over half of the sample experienced some fear or anxiety about growing old themselves . |
| 6 | Arsenal experienced some fierce tackles , but the most crucial came from one of their own men , Tommy Black , who was booked for a foul — in the penalty area . |
| 7 | As a consequence , the interbank market experienced some contraction due to country risk , concentrating business on large banks in established and well supervised financial centres . |
| 8 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 9 | It is interesting that a large proportion of these ‘ new ’ users experienced some unpleasantness on first use such as vomiting and dizziness . |
| 10 | Life in Russia is hard ( and since we deliberately chose to stay in a cheap non-western hotel we experienced some of the hardships first hand ) but I shall never forget the generosity and overwhelming hospitality shown to us by the people of Bastaisk church . |
| 11 | Easons , too , experienced some increase in competition from ‘ non-traditional ’ outlets . |
| 12 | During my first attack I experienced some very inaccurate return fire which ceased just before I broke away . |
| 13 | As rectal volumes increased , all spinal patients with lesions above T6 ( n=11 ) experienced some degree of autonomic dysreflexia that prevented further rectal distension . |
| 14 | Erm er it 's basically that there is no stated requirement at present from any of the four nations , for this aircraft to operate on ships er back in the early days of the programme when the the French were involved er we looked at the possibility of designing an aircraft er to provide the whole spectrum of capabilities from air defence er ground attack and also maritime operations off ships and er we we certainly experienced some difficulties in reconciling all those things in one design , which was adequately capable in each of the areas . |
| 15 | ‘ The UK lamb market experienced some uncertainty caused by the phasing out of the variable premium for domestic lambs , ’ was his only comment . |
| 16 | Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor , there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards . |
| 17 | The Fire Exhibition displays some of the discoveries that were made during the repairs . |
| 18 | All LSEs come with spruce tops , not cedar , and our particular top has a natural pale brown colour and displays some wayward but attractive figuring . |
| 19 | REFLECTIONS : John Conway of Meteor , Cookstown , displays some mirror designs to judge Pat Killen . |
| 20 | In recent years , however , the canine colon has become a standard model for colonic motility studies and , although it displays some kinds of contractile activity not seen in man , it has been useful for investigating neuropharmacological interactions . |
| 21 | Interestingly , the Bacchus and Leopard mosaic also displays some affinity with the pavement of single , rotated interlaced squares ( from Cirencester VI , 3 : pI . |
| 22 | Frank proudly displays some of his winning vegetables Picture : BOB BIRD |
| 23 | Chairman Antony Pilkington acknowledged concern that high interest rates were beginning to hit some UK customers . |
| 24 | Chairman Antony Pilkington acknowledged concern that high interest rates were beginning to hit some UK customers . |
| 25 | ‘ Lee Clark certainly has the potential to score a lot of goals and I expect people like Brian Kilcline to hit some from set pieces . ’ |
| 26 | When he arrived with his parents for the interview the headmaster took him to a field where a few golf holes were laid out , handed him a wedge and a bucket of balls , and told Jack to hit some shots at one of the greens while he organised some tea for his parents . |
| 27 | They suggest that warnings by Mr Major that a vote for the Liberal Democrats could let Labour into Downing Street by the ‘ back door ’ may have frightened some waverers back into the Tory fold . |
| 28 | He said that the last of the 14 fences was too brightly painted and frightened some of the horses . |
| 29 | In the immediate post-war period the problems created by the Russian Revolution , the emergence of a socialist Labour party as the major opposition party in Britain , and the extension of the franchise in 1918 to reward the working class and women for their role in the war , frightened some elements among the middle classes . |
| 30 | In order to communicate with military headquarters in Moscow Russian engineers had simply diverted some of the multicore trunk circuits from the main Vienna exchange so that they terminated in the Imperial Hotel . |