Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Tory MP , an aristocrat of impeccable right-wing views , who helped renegotiate some of Romania 's debts at the beginning of the hard years in the 1980s , also enjoyed joking with Ceauşescu . |
| 2 | So you see you do get some strange loads . |
| 3 | Belonging to such a close community helped assuage some of the loneliness Eva could have felt so far from her own close-knit family . |
| 4 | It is also advisable to float something on the surface of a concrete pond to help absorb some of the pressure produced by the ice patch , an empty , sealed lemonade bottle , plastic football , large piece of cork or even a tennis ball will do the job admirably . |
| 5 | After he and Anne had gone to the Red Cross centre to help comfort some of his neighbours , he told a friend , ‘ Thank God , I 'm not poor ! ’ |
| 6 | He said he would look into a dispute which was holding up the release of Brussels cash to help build some factories on the site of the old Darlington forge . |
| 7 | Heavy overnight rain has helped swell some rivers … but elsewhere the flooding seems to have peaked , and forecasters say the worst is over … at least for now . |
| 8 | SERC chairman Sir Mark Richmond announced that it is being given additional support to help achieve some of NCS 's recommendations . |
| 9 | This helped formulate some of the 600 questions and devise a reply scoring system . |
| 10 | She discussed the idea with her sister-in-law Mabel , and asked her if she would like to come along to help choose some suitable fabric . |
| 11 | America is a stolen country , and I want to help give some of it back to its rightful owners ’ |
| 12 | Amnesty 's major Sri Lanka ( September-December 1990 ) succeeded , against considerable obstacles , in bringing the tragedy of Sri Lanka to the attention of the world , and helped generate some fresh signs of change . |
| 13 | The special needs allowance package is a grant which will be available to housing associations and co-operatives to help finance some of the additional costs needed to provide support accommodation . |
| 14 | To help clarify some of these issues , a single experimental study was undertaken to compare the effects of dietary calcium and 70% small bowel resection on experimental colonic tumourigenesis and crypt cell proliferation in the terminal ileum , caecum , and distal colon , thereby permitting multivariate statistical analysis to determine independently significant and interacting factors influencing mucosal proliferation . |
| 15 | Margaret Charlwood will be taking a workshop session showing the Medau approach and would like to hear from anyone wishing to attend — especially those with cars who would be willing to help transport some disabled class members . |
| 16 | He has also asked if we can organise a rota of about 14 people to help take some of the burden from Alex with regards to looking after the hall . |
| 17 | A recent Bank project in north-west Brazil , Planaforo , which aims to help correct some of the damage caused to indigenous peoples by the Bank-funded road through Rondonia state , has itself come under attack . |
| 18 | His chum Charlie Price provided the engineering know-how to help get some of the battered old relics going . |
| 19 | To help tackle some of these questions we will now turn to examine the development of another recent set of local economic strategies , those designed to ‘ restructure for labour ’ . |
| 20 | The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it may be resorted to in order to help resolve some uncertainty or ambiguity in municipal law : per Lord Ackner in Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , Ex parte Brind [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 696 , 761 . |
| 22 | We could make a plan of the street , we could ask each of the groups to find a reason to go to someone else 's " house " ; we could perhaps ask other people in the street to try to help resolve some of the disputes other people are having . |
| 23 | Snappy , short news sequences certainly helped promote some of the big names but this was on a small scale in comparison with the United States where a few outstanding sportsmen became Hollywood stars . |
| 24 | Whilst access to these acres helped alleviate some of the expansionist pressures the cost of transport or difficulty in maintaining adequate attention could lead to unacceptably high losses at times . |
| 25 | In many respects the Red Wedge Tour must have helped alleviate some of the frustration and downright weirdness that was bubbling away in Smithdom . |
| 26 | I think I 'll try to do put some more to this letter . |
| 27 | From the little I 've been able to piece together when my father has chosen to let slip some information , I 've been able to get what I think is an accurate idea of what happened . |
| 28 | And Ken said no way can we do we got ta take take some off . |
| 29 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 30 | Well you have to have , you have to have a the only the trouble with it is , I 've got , I 'll either have to put them up here or I 'll have to scrape scrape some of the wall out I ca n't close the door ! |