Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 No one tells us how we are supposed to deal with death — our own or that of other people — and yet we are all going to face it at some time .
2 The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated .
3 A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen .
4 I had always intended to do it at some stage . ’
5 Luckily the girls also managed to provide me with some nephews to balance it up a bit . ’
6 In my own department , I should say that , although some members still believe that literature is best studied in isolation , looking simply at ‘ the words on the page ’ , most of us now like to contextualise it in some way , often historically , and are inclined to ask students to read some texts which are not ‘ literature ’ in the conventional sense .
7 And there was a vigour about him , a brightness of eye , an easiness about the way he held himself , that almost seemed to threaten her in some indefinable way .
8 Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it .
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