Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] some [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 2 | I want to get some feel of how serious it is . |
| 3 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 4 | I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Every year I like to do some kind of challenge to raise money for charity and to inspire others to raise money as well , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 6 | I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see . |
| 7 | So I decided to do some investigating of my own . |
| 8 | I struggled to make some sense of this new and appalling complication . |
| 9 | I enjoyed the congratulations and little bit of adulation , but I managed to keep some words of my father 's in my mind . |
| 10 | I had to presume some sort of sexual relationship between the girl and him — to do otherwise would have been naive ; but for all that there had been something much more daughterly , affectionately protective , than sexual in her glance back at him . |
| 11 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 12 | I had to make some sort of last-ditch stand . |
| 13 | First , while the water was boiling , I had to find some piece of stout wood to hold the boy 's dropped foot in the proper position — ‘ the position of function ’ as Reid had called it . |
| 14 | I have friends in Holland who are to visit next August and I wished to acquire some degree of proficiency in their language by then . ’ |
| 15 | I agree with the conclusions in favour of the plaintiffs which my noble and learned friends , Lord Templeman and Lord Ackner , have reached on this point but , in view of its general importance , I venture to add some observations of my own . |
| 16 | I have to fix some sort of bolt on her door that she can not reach . ’ |
| 17 | I plan to undertake some kind of training in media presentation , if possible , and to continue with w.p. training . |
| 18 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 19 | Table 1.1 lists six items from the DBQ which appear to imply some form of memory failure . |
| 20 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 21 | In Africa , some of the nations which have emerged from colonial rule are socialist in diverse styles , but others , created by independence movements in which there was an important populist or socialist strain — as in Ghana — and which aimed to achieve some form of ‘ African socialism ’ , developed subsequently under military rule . |
| 22 | From time to time , it is also useful to submit to the client a new idea or a variation in the way you intend to handle some part of his publicity campaign . |
| 23 | The incidentals being part of if you want to incorporate some sort of plot sequence or some sort of intrigue erm that 's entirely up to you . |
| 24 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 25 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 26 | The need for such detail , however , is not confined to Americans interested in the subject ; it encompasses all those who seek to make some sense of the institutions and complex relationships that form the British polity in the 1980s . |
| 27 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 28 | That applies equally to those in the private sector and to those who are now in the public sector but who hope to make some kind of management-employee buy-out . |
| 29 | She seemed to think some kind of explanation was necessary . |
| 30 | Are you going to pick some sort of album or something then ? |