Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 2 | I do NOT want him going to some — |
| 3 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 4 | Lydia could quite see Beuno maddeningly getting himself martyred on some trivial point of principle , or overturning a regime with his angelic intransigence . |
| 5 | Erm reference has been made er a couple of times to the appendix which I attached to my submission , that 's the map and the schedule of strategic constraints , I feel I ought not to let it pass without some comment . |
| 6 | Jose Martinez , father of a six-year-old girl and eight-year-old boy , says : ‘ I send my kids to school for an education , not to have them used in some political game . |
| 7 | Cook for 1 hour 43 minutes and you have Death Becomes Her , a frothy souffle whose first bite melts deliciously in the mouth but soon leaves you champing for some meat . |
| 8 | Now let us turn to some samples to illustrate this , which we can try for ourselves . |
| 9 | Penetrating , complex and totally different in structure , it pulls the single line of melody up and down and spins it out to leave you dangling in some sort of musical nirvana . |
| 10 | For a start you do n't expect me to behave like some sort of stud . |
| 11 | I do n't mind us looking at some funny ideas , ’ said Georgiades , ‘ but let's not go crazy . ’ |
| 12 | To reduce this ambiguity , it is necessary to eliminate the incorrect letter candidates in each position , or at least rank them according to some measure of their plausibility . |
| 13 | Claudia called for champagne and someone else suggested they put on some records and dance in the hall . |
| 14 | Giovanna had recently taken her shopping among some of the newly reopened antique shops in the city and had persuaded her to buy a pair of small tortoiseshell combs . |