Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A police spokesman said the house , in Old Road , was up for sale and was unoccupied , although it did contain some furniture . |
| 2 | Although it did envisage some mergers with universities , the emphasis throughout was very much on strengthening the public sector of higher education . |
| 3 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 4 | You may find that just a subtle difference but I think that in terms of the way erm make allocation in our local plan , that it does cause some confusion . |
| 5 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 6 | That is a very considerable prize but it has been painful to achieve and I am unsurprised that it has caused some disruption . |
| 7 | She had the feeling that it wanted to reach some sort of understanding with her , to tell her something in its rough , mute animal way . |
| 8 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 9 | No , I think it 's , it 's a dis it 's a disco , and it 's got some kind of title , the shaggy party , or something . |
| 10 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 11 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |
| 12 | The figure has now been recognised as a late fifteenth-century masterpiece and it has aroused some excitement in the art world , but there is still perplexity as to its author . |
| 13 | For this reason , the suggestion is made , and it has received some sympathy within the profession , that the audit partner , but not the firm , should rotate . |
| 14 | ‘ The National Grid does not own the land on which the pylons are to be built and it has to negotiate some form of agreement with the landowner , ’ he said . |
| 15 | And , as this post here , with , whatever it is , it looks as if it 's got some paddings on the ground , maybe a , a boat sometimes gets moored up to it and that 's just to stop the boat er banging up agai maybe the tide comes in that far , I do n't know . |
| 16 | I do n't know , it looks as if it 's got some grit in it for when it gets icy I suppose you have to put he grit down there . |
| 17 | 1993 is a time to put everything you 've got into your career and ambitions , even if it means sacrificing some fun . |
| 18 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 19 | But it does shift some people 's choices quite sharply in the direction of lower total cost or lower APR . |
| 20 | Montrose House would of course not be the only cost-effective alternative but it does give some idea of the scandalous waste of resources which is still going on in the semi-State sector . |
| 21 | But it does add some reliability to them . |
| 22 | The final option , fitting your own hard disk , is definitely the cheapest but it does need some skill with a screw driver . |
| 23 | It was just a quickie , I just wanted to read this little point that I actually think brings lots of what you 've been discussing about together , and it 's a light hearted , but it does have some relevance if I can just say it . |
| 24 | It is not a particularly good book and Niki despises it , but it does have some home truths in it . |
| 25 | Giving up is not usually the American way , but it does have some attractions . |
| 26 | Academically , this test is not very accurate but it does have some value as a rough comparative test between different materials . |
| 27 | It does not explain all the peculiar initial conditions of the big bang ; but it does provide some rationale for conditions that otherwise have to be accepted as given . |
| 28 | No it does n't solve all their problems , but it does provide some extras and for the vast majority of disabled people , it 's much appreciated . |
| 29 | But it did take some time . |
| 30 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |