Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 2 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 3 | While Helen 's day was filled by the demands of her young charges and the vain attempts of Mrs Webb to train her in some orderliness in domestic affairs , Edward continued to tend her father 's grave . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 6 | A common answer would be to fit it into some form of the practical syllogism : |
| 7 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 8 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 9 | The training , however high-level , is converted into higher education only when the student is able to form an independent evaluation of what he or she has learned or mastered , is able to put it into some kind of perspective , and is able to see not only its strengths but also its limitations . |
| 10 | To put it into some form of perspective it is perhaps worth reviewing the whole issue of how fonts get displayed on a computer screen and why the method chosen to display them has become so important . |
| 11 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 12 | I see alright well or I I invite members of the jury , the council wants to address me on some point of law which need n't concern you , so if you take a short break please . |
| 13 | It will be easy enough to bleach them with some Milk of Magnesia the night before he comes home . |
| 14 | I just wish he had n't felt a pressing need to turn himself into some sort of Hollywood-director clone for this production . |
| 15 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 16 | But all of them endorse one or the other of the principles of political neutrality mentioned above and seek to implement it by some variant of the following principles of restraint which limit the political relevance of ideals of the good . |
| 17 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 18 | It is grotesque to portray me as some sort of blue-eyed optimist . |
| 19 | Stunned by the heat , they roamed the streets of Ajaccio for several days , visiting its churches and bars and trying to equip themselves with some understanding of their new surroundings . |
| 20 | I would like to say something at some point about the point I made earlier about going , increasingly as you go down this list , you depart in directions which are , er , contrary to your policies , but |
| 21 | But money matters because it enables the elderly to continue to retain the power of choice in many areas of their lives , to defend themselves to some extent against the ‘ slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ’ and to enjoy a well earned retirement with dignity . |
| 22 | Heaven knows why , but numerous other GTi drivers seem to see us as some kind of personal challenge . |
| 23 | I hope , heaven help me , to bring them into some sort of design and architecture later . |
| 24 | Your heroine is going to have to plunge herself into some sort of danger . |
| 25 | I knew I had to bring it to some kind of confession , but saying , ‘ I love you , ’ to a woman who loved another man ? |
| 26 | ‘ And , to be fair to the boy , I possibly confused him , since when he very properly inquired as to whether or not I was a patient , I had to admit myself in some doubt on the point . ’ |
| 27 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 28 | No he wants to tape us on some sort of tape . |