Example sentences of "[adv prt] some [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying . |
| 2 | As certain areas of Great Britain , for example , take on some of the characteristics of divided societies , the focus of this study also has a relevance , of increasing proportion , outside the province and beyond what many residents in Northern Ireland might see as most directly pertinent to them . |
| 3 | The issuing house will underwrite the issue ( i.e. agree to buy up any unsold shares ) for a fee , and will generally pass on some of the risk to sub-underwriters , who are usually large institutional investors . |
| 4 | Words for strong stemming might be filtered through a table of exceptions which are not to be stemmed ( " organism " , " organist " etc ) Strong stemming is an economical but crude way of automatically bringing in some of the halo of see also terms which surround many search words . |
| 5 | ‘ A botanical illustrator who 's retired here is filling in some of the gaps in our plant and tree records . |
| 6 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 7 | Without even trespassing into any of these more perilous aspects of pre-war street life , the Mass Observation study The Pub and the People ( 1943 ) filled in some of the detail of the rowdy bonhomie of the working-class weekend , and the ‘ high point of mass drunkenness ’ during the exodus from the northern towns to Blackpool . |
| 8 | Right before I fill in some of the details on this again an important point to grasp coming up . |
| 9 | Now even this annoyed her , the way her father toned down some of the roughness of his idiom , her mother increased the Holywood Hampstead in her voice . |
| 10 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 11 | ‘ We had a gale last night , and it brought down some of the tiles on your cottage . |
| 12 | If you start writing down some of the responses to that question , you will find you have along the way acquired a ragbag of elements that will have an important bearing on the design . |
| 13 | You know , i i it is a very fine line between er how we talk to our customers , which is why I , I , I ca n't stress enough the need for the project coordinators to talk face to face with the customer first of all , and perhaps gently lead him down some of the items in this list that the project coordinator thinks the client might not have remembered . |
| 14 | Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting . |
| 15 | For some reason it seemed to kick down some of the barrier of strangeness between them . |
| 16 | Laughter seemed to break down some of the barrier of embarrassment that had built up between them and when Carrie lit two candles she handed one to Seb and said , ‘ Good night , Seb . |
| 17 | The court was told that Gavin , full-time city council union official at the time of the offences , handed over some of the cash as hardship payments to striking bin men . |
| 18 | We must face the issue seriously and not in the way in which the Prime Minister faced the issue at Harare when he said that he would write off some of the debts in return for the acceptance of an economic model imposed by the International Monetary Fund , and say that there has to be a write-off of debt . |
| 19 | Governments begin to slough off some of the wealth in taxes to ameliorate the conditions of the poor and provide public amenities for their citizens . |
| 20 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 21 | The virtuous and those plagued by dogs ( not mutually exclusive groups ) can always walk off some of the effects of a pudding afterwards . |
| 22 | It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations . |
| 23 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 24 | Philip took the vase and put it on the table where it had been before , wiping off some of the dust with his elbow . |
| 25 | I if you get them off some of the mosses up our way , then they boil away far quicker but the other thing I think is mainly variety . |
| 26 | When the going gets tougher the management can simply sell off some of the property of its partly-owned Oldham Estate subsidiary . |
| 27 | He worked off some of the anger by berating Tom Hanks for not having Vulcan ready more quickly when he ordered that the horse be prepared for a ride . |
| 28 | One of the simplest things to do is to work off some of the tension by walking to the interview if at all possible . |
| 29 | While Father Aden tidies the rooms , Brother Bernard slips into his role as tourist guide , showing off some off the treasures of the Abbey . |
| 30 | It 's heartening to see NI take up some of the challenges of feminism in a thoughtful , provocative way . |