Example sentences of "[adv] to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it happens daily to some public relations person somewhere . |
| 2 | Eva was never afraid to speak her mind , and she had an uncanny knack of putting her finger right on a problem , much to some people 's discomfiture . |
| 3 | Wave after wave of a pleasure bordering on exaltation raised her gently to some peak , ebbed a little , then carried her up again , more fiercely than before . |
| 4 | This form of internal organization arises from the need to maintain direct control of the activity of employees , indirect control via incentive schemes not being possible ( we refer below to some of the issues that arise in the attempt to devise such incentive structures ) . |
| 5 | It comes naturally to some people , but there should be night-school classes in it for the rest of us . |
| 6 | The problem was that OpenForum ‘ 92 was originally intended to be an exhibition as well , and the relatively late decision by the organisers to focus more on the conference side was not communicated clearly enough to some of the exhibiting vendors . |
| 7 | Nor did he say that he thought it was unlikely , on the whole , that the Bishop would sack a perfectly competent administrator who happened not to be smarmy enough to some thruster from the Scottish lowlands . |
| 8 | I 'll get you some sandwiches and some more tea and once you 've eaten we can get down to some practical thinking about what you can do next . ’ |
| 9 | But when she 's at home , Sue Lawley loves nothing more than getting down to some old-fashioned housework |
| 10 | The garden was and still is his paradise and his pride and joy , and whenever Charles has the time he will put on a pair of old trousers , find a spade and get down to some real manual labour . |
| 11 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 12 | I feel I have let Sir Charles Irving down to some degree , ’ he added . |
| 13 | We watched them go and then settled down to some serious fly fishing , ending the day with four nice fish weighing 3lb . |
| 14 | He sat back and folded his arms , giving me the impression that he was now ready to get down to some serious talking . |
| 15 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 16 | The husband and wife retire from their work and immediately move down to some retirement haven in deepest Cornwall . |
| 17 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 18 | Perhaps I should be charitable and put the omission down to some other reason . |
| 19 | PASSION AT THE POOLSIDE : Fergie and Johnny enjoy getting down to some serious canoodling as the sun beats mercilessly on the naked pate of the whizzkid from Texas |
| 20 | The teacher had finally got her class settled down to some work . |
| 21 | ‘ Now we 've finished the last series of Pemberley , I hope I can get down to some serious work on it . ’ |
| 22 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 23 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 24 | The private pilot , or group of pilots , gets down to some serious drinking and think about raising money . |
| 25 | As well as reducing some sophisticated philosophies down to some fairly crude statements , we have probably also given the impression that penal systems ‘ in the real world ’ at different stages in history possess a consistency and coherence that is in fact largely lacking . |
| 26 | Any strange or inexplicable behaviour , both in humans and in the natural world , was put down to some supernatural sixth sense . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , we can not use such excuses for ourselves , and so let's get down to some hard facts ; facts which we think will give you an understanding of why you are overweight , and how this can best be tackled , in the short and long term . |
| 28 | They settled down to some serious kissing . |
| 29 | There the chairs of the various committees would haggle to bring the total additional claims down to some acceptable consequent rate increase and to decide whose budget was to be trimmed most . |
| 30 | After this we settled down to some serious patrolling and there followed a very strenuous tour of duty which lasted until the following November . |