Example sentences of "[prep] some [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 2 | ‘ Tonight someone will visit you , to talk about some very secret business . |
| 3 | Right , how about some more some more did wh wh what 's graphite ? |
| 4 | I 'll tell you what Honey and Munnford actually found and what their findings were , we 'll also think about some more practical applications that if people learn in different ways , what impact does this have on the trainers . |
| 5 | Your father has brought off some very bad bargains lately . ’ |
| 6 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 7 | My career , for all its pitfalls , owes a lot to his example , to his unwavering belief and encouragement during some very difficult times . |
| 8 | The Iron Rock is a core of molten iron vomited from the bowels of the earth during some incalculably ancient upheaval . |
| 9 | Superchunk have covered ‘ Brand New Love ’ as some kinda tribute . |
| 10 | Like The Krays , it deals in mythical allegories rather than historical realism , and swerves unevenly between some nicely controlled dark comedy and unintentionally funny ‘ poetic ’ dialogue . |
| 11 | Instead we carried out a cloudbreak procedure using the NDB to the south of the field , which nestles in between some quite high mountains . |
| 12 | Now I would say to you , without fear or favour , that the only people recruited in that period of my appointment that I would not of had in the Pathfinder Force were people that came in through some rather dubious trap-door . |
| 13 | The gulley was finally negotiable , though it was a tough scramble up the far side through some disagreeably sharp-thorned smilax . |
| 14 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 15 | When Gallotta works up steam he has the dancers going through some startlingly slick paces — polished dance routines , split-second falls and lifts and a brisk formation crawl . |
| 16 | And , indeed , he must have been a tough little lad to have survived it all , though it was to take its toll on him eventually ; by the time he died in far-away London at the age of 29 he had lived through some very harsh times indeed . |
| 17 | We sat through some very boring speeches which attempted to make the thoughts of Mao , Marx and Lenin exciting and accessible to a bunch of dumb women , and then broke for coffee . |
| 18 | Erm we 've er we you 'll be looking at education , our biggest service , and a service which we should which is going through some very profound changes at the moment where we 're trying to er increase the resources that are within individual schools so that they can make their own decisions erm about er how they best meet the needs of their youngsters . |
| 19 | Well I 'm sorry that the gentleman from Athens said that , but we have to understand that people right now are going through some very strong feelings and I 'm sure they 're disappointed . |
| 20 | I mean she is capable of getting through some fairly extraordinary amounts of work . |
| 21 | W H Smith came in for some surprisingly harsh comment from the financial press last week after the group 's interim results had revealed a 20% drop in pretax profits . |
| 22 | And from previous experience it was for some no longer a matter of automatic belief when Hitler declared that ‘ the Bolshevik hordes … will be smashed into oblivion by us in the coming summer ’ . |
| 23 | And so the talk went on , reaching back , for some rather tense minutes , to her childhood . |
| 24 | My predecessor as librarian did , I admit , go in for some rather unpleasant stuff towards which I have no inclination , but being a libertarian I 'm certainly not going to act as censor . |
| 25 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 26 | Gender disadvantage is of course bound up with concepts of identity and role and may be more problematic for some newly retired men who have invested much in their world of work than for those women who have centred their existence in the home . |
| 27 | ‘ Especially when they 've paid to enjoy what , for some anyway , must be the holiday of a lifetime , ’ Lindsey smilingly agreed . |
| 28 | Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future . |
| 29 | He was switching off from her again , and for some utterly incomprehensible reason her heart was tightening in protest . |
| 30 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |