Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 2 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 3 | Someone — teacher , examiner , ‘ assessor ’ — observes the student at work , or perhaps interacts with him/her in some way , or more commonly analyses products of the student 's work . |
| 4 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 5 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 6 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 7 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 8 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 9 | It was a point made to me with some vehemence by Mahmoud Labadi , who was then official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon , a bespectacled figure every bit as urbane and cynical as his Israeli counterpart . |
| 10 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 11 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never known such a miserable bride , ’ she went on , standing back and looking at me with some affection , but more disapproval . |
| 13 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 14 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 16 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 17 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 18 | A member of the mathematics advisory team was invited by the headteacher to work in the school and while it was not compulsory , it was assumed that every teacher would work with him at some stage . |
| 19 | It was impossible for the garrison to fire upon them for some time without risk of injuring their neighbours along with their enemies . |
| 20 | The physics classroom had a spiral iron staircase leading from it to some region inhabited only by science masters . |
| 21 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |
| 22 | Alice would have liked to talk to her , for she felt drawn to her in some kind of kinship ; but Caroline did not feel this , it seemed . |
| 23 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 24 | But f f f for many people Judy I mean th people will look to you with some degree of er of admiration and maybe some degree of of envy that you do have that strong faith that 's that 's helped you through those times . |
| 25 | Anyway yes , Whit 's going to us at some stage and I will wander round town while he 's doing his talk and then transcribe it |
| 26 | I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case . |
| 27 | We shall look at it in some detail in this chapter , devoting two sections , 5.1 and 5.2 , to it . |
| 28 | Only regressive assimilation of voice is found across word boundaries , and then only of one type ; since this matter is important for foreign learners we will look at it in some detail . |
| 29 | Erm , Chair , I think when we come to the capital programme you will be proposing that the P A G advise you and the Director in terms of producing a package which meets those guidelines , erm , and given the opportunity to look at them in some detail . |
| 30 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |