Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith had switched thoughts to endeavour to find some sound reason for telephoning Rosemary when he handed the phone over to her . |
| 2 | We had arranged to meet Mrs Newton at her home at ten o'clock and I left my flat earlier than necessary to try to miss some of the rush-hour traffic , though how you avoid a rush hour which lasts from around seven in the morning to nine o'clock at night , I do not know . |
| 3 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 4 | Interestingly , chimpanzees have been taught to communicate using some basic signs from American Sign Language — a language of gesture and facial expression , both used naturally by chimps living in the wild . |
| 5 | It is important to try to preserve some of the old pedestrian routes through the new precinct . |
| 6 | Talks are currently in progress in all the EC states , to try to distill some common requirements from fuel suppliers and their customers . |
| 7 | The pawnshop also played an important role in enabling families to survive from week to week — setting their meagre possessions to work to provide some security . |
| 8 | I would definitely need to try to find some help from somewhere . |
| 9 | Secondly , whenever local politics were looked at , they were investigated using quantitative statistical techniques , used to try to find some sort of ‘ link ’ or ‘ association ’ between local inputs ( such as population density , income per capita , degree of urbanization ) and policy outputs ( usually levels of expenditure on particular services ) . |
| 10 | Slorne stared , her feathers a silvery grey in the night , and seemed to try to find some strength which would let her speak . |
| 11 | Two years ago , she had brought the whole thing to a halt by leaving Hong Kong and moving here , to London , to try to find some peace of mind . |
| 12 | Approach barman to try to sell some tickets in pub . |
| 13 | So here is an attempt to try to answer some of those questions by direct substitution or with a small amount of modification . |
| 14 | Can the Minister say whether the Government will agree to a Europewide eco-labelling scheme , to try to eliminate some of the misleading claims that are made on behalf of some products , which prejudice products that are environmentally safe ? |
| 15 | Hewlett-Packard is going to try to steal some of Sun 's thunder this week by getting their top honchos to roll out a high-end multi-processor , reportedly code named Emerald , that will come to use the recently announced 7100 PA-RISC chip . |
| 16 | It would be nice to try to naturalise some fritillaries . |
| 17 | Some of these cloths will be interlines and it might be a good notion to try adding some of the iron-on lining to the wrong side while you are pressing . |
| 18 | Instead , I shall draw on some of what has evolved over the last half century as ‘ curriculum theory ’ in education to try to suggest some frameworks and perspectives for analysing the wealth of detail which the system displays . |
| 19 | And to help us to try to avoid some of the more obvious pitfalls to be avoided . |
| 20 | Right , Whitchurch seven , the , the report they want , where we 're getting to and there is an appendix at the proposals of course , for developing erm , a forum for Whitchurch er , with a range of activities that we could undertake to try to regenerate some confidence in Whitchurch . |
| 21 | Such technology once in place may signal a new era of competition : for example , it might allow the Chicago exchanges to try to wrest some of the specifically European interest rate and index derivatives away from the Europeans . |
| 22 | Faced with the pressure resulting from those disasters , we know that the Government have begun to try to undo some of the damage . |
| 23 | To try to devise some hidden hand at work here when there is a perfectly good explanation is to ignore the appalling mismanagement of the Chilean economy which was taking place . |
| 24 | A complete review of what is now a vast , varied — and sometimes idiosyncratic — literature would take us well beyond our available space and our aim here will be to summarise the main approaches to the topic , in order to try to disentangle some arguments in the debate and draw some general conclusions from it . |
| 25 | All I can try to do is to outline what theists have been saying when they talk of God , and to try to offset some popular misconceptions of what they mean . |
| 26 | But in order to try to keep some of America 's weaker carriers in the air he has decided to increase the limit on the stake a foreign investor can hold in an American airline from 25% to 49% . |
| 27 | Robert , who found he was sweating , started to try to recall some key phrases from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |
| 28 | It was to try to shed some further light on this matter that on 2 July 1992 , by way of a written question , I asked the Government its view of the legal status of agreements appended to treaties amending the Treaty of Rome . |
| 29 | You ought to try taking some of them , honestly they 're so easy the exams are , like history , ah , talk about easy , spartan erm , you could G C S E , P E mum |
| 30 | In Part Two I want to try to develop some of this potential and outline a ‘ postclassical ’ perspective : that is , a perspective grounded on the fundamental assumptions made by Beccaria , but with some liberties taken and adjustments made in the light of the various problems it has encountered . |