Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 2 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 4 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 5 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 6 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 7 | A truly usable recognition system would have to learn from whole word recognition techniques and combine them in some fashion with existing segmentation techniques ( Ho et al , 1991 ; Hull et al , 1991 ) . |
| 8 | This clearly elevates me to some sort of status in his mind , although I personally could n't give a shit . |
| 9 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 10 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 11 | As the name implies they do not harden permanently but will soften repeatedly if one subjects them to some temperature between about 100° and 150°C . |
| 12 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 13 | We are a country which is very conscious indeed of history , or let's put it this way , of the past , and the job of the historian is to convert that interest in the past into something which is a little bit more critical , more profound , erm and which will genuinely , I think , provide you with some kind of perspective in which to understand the problems of the present . |
| 14 | When , after his assaults on her , she begs to be allowed to leave , her instinctive feeling for him makes her provide him with some hope of her return , or at least of their future communication . |
| 15 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 16 | While Helen 's day was filled by the demands of her young charges and the vain attempts of Mrs Webb to train her in some orderliness in domestic affairs , Edward continued to tend her father 's grave . |
| 17 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 18 | Place it in some water in a saucer and it will soon grow new feathery leaves . |
| 19 | Inasmuch as the parables provide us with some indication of how Jesus saw the world , it must be said that women would appear . |
| 20 | In the main , however , they employ their temporary workers directly and issue them with some sort of employment contract . |
| 21 | You 've probably saved me from some kind of demonic sacrifice . |
| 22 | This was the last day of these services , and there is talk of reviving them at some time in the future but using modern Sprinter units . |
| 23 | Your parents nag you and bribe you ( they call it loving you ) and bash you into some sort of shape that suits them . |
| 24 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 25 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 26 | Instinctively she ran a hand through her dishevelled hair , smoothing it into some kind of order . |
| 27 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 28 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 29 | Yeah but they 're , but they 're not they 're gon na do it in some time in June I think that 's the target . |
| 30 | I 'm trusting you with some part of the background . |