Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] some " in BNC.
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1 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
2 | Blanche had increasingly come to accept that doing her best was good enough and that she did not need to measure herself against some ideal standard . |
3 | To see things differently means changing ourselves in some way , and most of us are reluctant to do this . |
4 | The town 's brief motto , ‘ Soor Plums ’ , is a memento of an English invasion when a few stragglers misguidedly stopped to help themselves to some wild plums . |
5 | On the other hand , shaky close-ups , even of magnificent beasts , are not very good to watch and you really need to provide yourself with some kind of additional support to help you hold the camcorder steady . |